How do I install the Item Management Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/item-management/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at https://claudskills.com/install/.

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

ClaudSkills / Dev Tools / tools-misc

Item Management

Category: Dev Tools · Sub-category: tools-misc · Last updated: 2026-05-24

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Patterns for managing MSBuild item groups: Include/Remove/Update semantics, item metadata, batching with %(Metadata), transforms, per-item filtering, and cross-product batching pitfalls. Only activate in MSBuild/.NET build context. USE FOR: diagnosing and fixing item group anti-patterns in .csproj files, reviewing item management for correctness, fixing CS2002 duplicate file warnings from SDK globbing, fixing targets that run more times than expected due to cross-product batching, fixing Include vs Update misuse on SDK-globbed items, fixing FileWrites registration for generated file clean support, moving generated files to IntermediateOutputPath. DO NOT USE FOR: target chain architecture (use target-authoring), property patterns (use property-patterns), incrementality (use incremental-build), general anti-patterns (use msbuild-antipatterns), non-MSBuild build systems.

From the source SKILL.md

Canonical patterns for working with item groups, from Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets.

What this skill does

Item Management is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the tools-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/item-management/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Item Management Claude Code skill is built for developers, power users, and teams automating repetitive workflows and improving developer experience. 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

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

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

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

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

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Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/dotnet/skills/blob/HEAD/plugins/dotnet-msbuild/skills/item-management/SKILL.md
License: MIT
Author: dotnet

Cite this skill

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APA

dotnet. (2026). Item Management [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/item-management/

BibTeX

@misc{item-management-2026,
  author    = {dotnet},
  title     = {Item Management [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/item-management/}
}

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