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snowbank-slices-and-buffers
SnowBankSDK/foundationdb-dotnet-clientSkill
How to correctly use the Slice type and its companions (SliceReader, SliceWriter, SliceOwner) for binary data in the FoundationDB .NET client / SnowBank.Core codebase. Slice is a readonly struct (namespace System) — the logical equivalent of a ReadOnlyMemory of bytes with many helpers. Use whenever code constructs or reads a Slice, converts between bytes and other types (Slice.FromBytes/FromStringUtf8/FromInt32/FromFixed64/ToInt64/ToStringUtf8/AsSlice/ToArray), builds or parses a binary buffer (SliceWriter/SliceReader), rents pooled buffers (SliceOwner/ArrayPool), or worries about Nil-vs-Empty
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 158 stars are split between them (about 16 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 62/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 4eb330eab58b, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
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| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onesnowbank-slices-and-buffers SnowBankSDK/foundationdb-dotnet-client · Skill | 62 | ★ 158 | ≈157 always | 21d ago |
| model-redux-state/build-slices-and-selectors reduxjs/redux-toolkit · Skill Both about slice | 81 | ★ 11k | ≈30 always | 29d ago |
| slice-global Global-Slice/claude-plugin · Plugin Both about slice | 47 | ★ 9 | not measured | 4mo ago |