Aspire Skill

Use this skill when the task is about operating an Aspire distributed application through the Aspire CLI rather than falling back to ad-hoc dotnet, docker, or shell workflows.

Resources are typically defined in an AppHost such as, AppHost.cs, apphost.ts, or AppHost/AppHost.csproj (Program.cs).

Use this skill for

• Starting, restarting, and stopping AppHosts with aspire start and aspire stop
• Working through code changes with the right AppHost, resource, default watch, runtime hot reload, or IDE-managed workflow
• Initializing Aspire in an existing app with aspire init (drops skeleton files; use the aspireify skill to complete wiring)
• Inspecting resources, logs, traces, and docs
• Discovering integrations with aspire integration list or aspire integration search, and adding them with aspire add
• Recovering missing TypeScript AppHost support files with aspire restore
• Discovering the correct frontend URL before a Playwright handoff
• Understanding unfamiliar Aspire AppHost APIs before editing C# or TypeScript AppHosts
• Managing AppHost secrets and CLI config
• Publishing and deploying Aspire apps, including single named steps with aspire do
• Adding custom dashboard or resource commands with docs-backed AppHost patterns