.NET Web API

Building ASP.NET Core web APIs the way the .NET team builds them.

Installation

$ npx skills add dotnet/skills

The CLI's unit is the repository, so this installs everything in dotnet/skills, not dotnet-webapi alone. It writes into whichever agent directories it finds — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Zed.

Summary

Building ASP.NET Core web APIs the way the .NET team builds them.

  • Reach for it when starting a service, or bringing a controller-era codebase onto the current minimal-API conventions.
  • Sits in Implement — writing the change: framework-specific conventions, and the discipline that keeps a long agent run on the rails.
  • Assumes .net.
  • Published by .NET team, who ship the thing it is about — a stronger claim than a well-regarded engineer having written something good.
  • Installing pulls the whole dotnet/skills repository: this catalogue lists 4 other entries from it, and the repo may hold more.

Where it sits in delivery

ImplementWriting the change: framework-specific conventions, and the discipline that keeps a long agent run on the rails.Everything in Build

The skill itself

The full text lives with its publisher and changes when they change it. Read it there rather than here — a mirrored copy of somebody else's procedure goes stale silently, and this page would have no way of telling you.

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