Aspire

Guides authoring and reviewing CommunityToolkit Aspire.Hosting integration APIs. Classifies integration archetypes, then applies self-contained best practices for naming, resource shape, run/publish/deploy behavior, eventing, connection properties, security, endpoint semantics, polyglot exports, READMEs, and tests.

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Team initialization flow (Phase 1 proposal + Phase 2 creation)

User-level AI agents that travel with you across projects

Capture Playwright screenshots and embed them in GitHub PR descriptions

Pre-release validation, npm publish procedures, and post-publish verification

Three-tier agent memory model (hot/cold/wiki) for 20-55% context reduction per spawn

Semver versioning rules for Squad SDK and CLI — prevents prerelease version incidents

Generate a TypeScript AppHost from an existing C# example AppHost, then add a TypeScriptAppHostTest-based integration test.

Use this skill when the user is working with an Aspire distributed application and needs to operate the AppHost or its resources through the Aspire CLI: start, restart, stop, or wait on the app; inspect resources, logs, traces, docs, or health; add integrations; manage secrets or config; publish, deploy, or rerun a named pipeline step; initialize Aspire in an existing app; recover missing `.aspire/modules` files in a TypeScript AppHost; discover the right frontend URL for Playwright from Aspire state; expose custom dashboard/resource commands; or understand unfamiliar Aspire AppHost APIs in C# or TypeScript. Use it even if they describe the task in terms of an AppHost, resources, dashboard, existing app bootstrap, missing generated modules, Playwright URL discovery, C# API understanding, or local distributed app workflow without explicitly naming Aspire. Do not use it for non-Aspire .NET apps, container-only repos with no AppHost, or ordinary build and test tasks.

One-time skill for completing Aspire initialization in an existing app after `aspire init` has dropped the skeleton AppHost. Use this skill when an `aspire.config.json` exists but the AppHost has not yet been wired up.

Update the Aspire version in the repository to the latest nightly build.

Query .NET APIs across NuGet packages, platform libraries, and local files. Search for types, list API surfaces, compare and diff versions, find extension methods and implementors. Use whenever you need to answer questions about .NET library contents.