Foundatio

Use when working with Foundatio infrastructure abstractions for .NET -- caching, queuing, messaging, file storage, distributed locking, or background jobs. Apply when using ICacheClient, IQueue, IMessageBus, IFileStorage, ILockProvider, IJob, or resilience patterns like retry and circuit breakers. Covers in-memory and production implementations (Redis, Azure, AWS, Kafka, RabbitMQ). Use context7 MCP to fetch current API docs and examples.

Scans .NET code for ~50 performance anti-patterns across async, memory, strings, collections, LINQ, regex, serialization, and I/O with tiered severity classification. Use when analyzing .NET code for optimization opportunities, reviewing hot paths, or auditing allocation-heavy patterns.

Activate this skill when BenchmarkDotNet (BDN) is involved in the task — creating, running, configuring, or reviewing BDN benchmarks. Also activate when microbenchmarking .NET code would be useful and BenchmarkDotNet is the likely tool. Consider activating when answering a .NET performance question requires measurement and BenchmarkDotNet may be needed. Covers microbenchmark design, BDN configuration and project setup, how to run BDN microbenchmarks efficiently and effectively, and using BDN for side-by-side performance comparisons. Do NOT use for profiling/tracing .NET code (dotnet-trace, PerfView), production telemetry, or load/stress testing (Crank, k6).