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What

On the Aspire skills page, the Other installation options section already lists install methods as tabs (Copilot CLI, Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, skills.sh). This adds one more sibling tab, .NET (dnx):

dnx skillz add microsoft/aspire-skills

Why

We built skillz to give .NET a native way to install agent skills: with the .NET 10 SDK, dnx skillz add ... runs the installer directly from NuGet, so the whole workflow stays in the .NET toolchain instead of requiring Node.js and the Vercel skills CLI.

i know aspire is not just .NET but probably a big chunk of the audience already has .net 10 installed. skillz is completely open source and ships with no telemetry, so it's a transparent, dependency-light alternative for anyone who'd rather not pull in the Node toolchain.

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Pull request overview

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Copilot was unable to run its full agentic suite in this review.

Adds a new documentation tab describing a .NET-based (dnx) alternative for installing the Aspire Skills agent, intended to avoid a Node.js dependency.

Changes:

  • Adds a new .NET (dnx) tab with installation instructions using dnx skillz
  • Links to the skillz NuGet package and its GitHub repository

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<TabItem id='dotnet' label='.NET (dnx)'>

On the .NET 10 SDK or later, `dnx` runs [`skillz`](https://www.nuget.org/packages/skillz), which is like `skills` but natively a .NET tool, no Node.js required.
dnx skillz add microsoft/aspire-skills
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Use this path when you already have the .NET SDK and prefer not to depend on Node.js.
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