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Incremental Build

Category: Engineering  ·  Sub-category: performance  ·  Last updated:
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Guide for optimizing MSBuild incremental builds. Only activate in MSBuild/.NET build context. USE FOR: builds slower than expected on subsequent runs, 'nothing changed but it rebuilds anyway', diagnosing why targets re-execute unnecessarily, fixing broken no-op builds. Covers 8 common causes: missing Inputs/Outputs on custom targets, volatile properties in output paths (timestamps/GUIDs), file writes outside tracked Outputs, missing FileWrites registration, glob changes, Visual Studio Fast Up-to-Date Check (FUTDC) issues. Key diagnostic: look for 'Building target completely' vs 'Skipping target' in binlog. DO NOT USE FOR: first-time build slowness (use build-perf-baseline), parallelism issues (use build-parallelism), evaluation-phase slowness (use eval-performance), non-MSBuild build systems. INVOKES: dotnet build /bl, binlog replay with diagnostic verbosity.

What this skill does

Incremental Build is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the performance sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/incremental-build/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Incremental Build Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 70,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

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Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/incremental-build
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/incremental-build/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/incremental-build/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/incremental-build/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/incremental-build/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\incremental-build\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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ClaudSkills. (2026). Incremental Build [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/incremental-build/
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@misc{incremental-build-2026,
  author    = {ClaudSkills},
  title     = {Incremental Build [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/incremental-build/}
}

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