Technology Selection

by dotnet

Technology Selection is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by dotnet in skills.

5.2K stars384 forkson dotnet/skillsAdded 2026/08/16Repository updated 2026/08/15

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Install Technology Selection

Copy Technology Selection into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/dotnet/skills/tree/main/plugins/dotnet-ai/skills/technology-selection ~/.claude/skills/technology-selection

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/dotnet/skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/dotnet-ai/skills/technology-selection/SKILL.md in dotnet/skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/technology-selection
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Technology Selection does

Technology Selection helps developers choose the right .NET AI/ML stack (ML.NET, Microsoft.Extensions.AI, Microsoft Agent Framework, ONNX Runtime, OllamaSharp) for classification, LLM integration, RAG, agentic workflows, and local inference in .NET 8+ projects.

Technology Selection is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Technology Selection comes from a repository tagged agent-skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

.NET AI and Machine Learning

Inputs

Input	Required	Description
Task description	Yes	What the AI/ML feature should accomplish (e.g., "classify support tickets", "summarize documents")
Data description	Yes	Type and shape of input data (structured/tabular, unstructured text, images, mixed)
Deployment constraints	No	Cloud vs. local, latency SLO, cost budget, offline requirements
Existing project context	No	Current .csproj, existing packages, target framework

Workflow

Step 1: Classify the task using the decision tree

Evaluate the developer's task against this decision tree and select the appropriate technology. State which branch applies and why.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Technology Selection

What else does dotnet publish alongside Technology Selection?
Technology Selection is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from dotnet/skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include .NET P/Invoke, ASP.NET Core Web API and Agentic Workflows. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Technology Selection does, and is maintained by dotnet in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the dotnet/skills page.
How does Technology Selection compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Technology Selection ranks #497 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Technology Selection against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.