Official Aspire skills and plugins for AI coding agents to initialize, wire, orchestrate, monitor, and deploy distributed apps.
Install
npx skills add microsoft/aspire-skillsgh skill install microsoft/aspire-skillsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/aspire-skillsSkills in this collection
- AspireMicrosoftOfficial**WORKFLOW SKILL** - Aspire router. Detects AppHosts, enforces guardrails, and selects the right sub-skill. USE FOR: Aspire AppHost, Aspire CLI, distributed app, cloud-native .NET, aspire start/stop/resource/deploy/destroy/publish/init/new/add/wait/describe/ps/logs/otel, aspire agent init, WithBrowserLogs, WithTerminal, Interaction Service, apphost.mts, TS package managers, Yarn Classic, custom…
- Aspire DeploymentMicrosoftOfficial**WORKFLOW SKILL** — Deploy Aspire apps from AppHost models to Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, or preview Radius. WHEN: "deploy Aspire app", "publish Aspire artifacts", "deploy to Azure Container Apps", "generate Kubernetes artifacts", "deploy to Radius", "tear down Aspire deployment". INVOKES: aspire CLI, Aspire docs, target cloud/container CLIs.
- Aspire InitMicrosoftOfficial**WORKFLOW SKILL** - First-run flow for adding Aspire to a repo. Picks `aspire new` (greenfield) or `aspire init` (existing repo), drops the AppHost skeleton, then hands off to `aspireify` for resource wiring.
- Aspire MonitoringMicrosoftOfficial**ANALYSIS SKILL** - Observe Aspire apps: logs, traces, metrics, resource state, telemetry export, browser telemetry, and the standalone dashboard. Routes between local Aspire CLI, AKS workload diagnostics, and deployed Azure resource health.
- Aspire OrchestrationMicrosoftOfficial**WORKFLOW SKILL** — Manage Aspire lifecycle in VS Code or the CLI. WHEN: "start or stop my Aspire app", "aspire_apphost_start", "aspire_apphost_stop", "notEditorOwned", "ambiguousSession", "aspire start", "aspire stop", "aspire wait", resource restart, file-lock errors (MSB3491 or CS2012), port conflicts, git worktrees, "--isolated", "aspire update --self", "aspire update --migrate", "aspire…
- Aspire Project V2 MigrationMicrosoftOfficial**WORKFLOW SKILL** - Safely migrates eligible Aspire 13.6+ AppHosts from legacy ProjectResource APIs to experimental DotnetProjectResource APIs after a per-resource assessment and explicit approval of exact edits.
- AspireifyMicrosoftOfficial**WORKFLOW SKILL** - Wire Aspire AppHosts or repair TypeScript AppHost toolchains. Scans the repo, proposes a resource graph, edits C#, file-based C#, or TypeScript AppHosts, wires ServiceDefaults + OTel, validates with `aspire start`, then stops.
- Pr ReviewMicrosoftOfficial**AUTHOR SKILL (internal to microsoft/aspire-skills).** Reviews pull requests *into this repo* for problems only — bugs, regressions, missing eval coverage, frontmatter or routing damage, plugin-manifest drift, hook safety, and other concrete issues.