version: "1.0.0" name: code-review description: >- Repository-specific checks for Microsoft.Build.Locator code reviews. Use for loader, discovery, public API, and package changes. license: MIT

Microsoft.Build.Locator code review

Read AGENTS.md. For loader, registration, or discovery changes, also read the applicable msbuild-loader-netcore or msbuild-loader-netframework skill; read both for common code. Verify that the skills accurately describe the code, and require them to change when behavior changes.

Check these repository-specific invariants:

• Common code must work on both net46 and net8.0; runtime-specific behavior

must stay behind the correct conditional.

• Registration must happen before any core Microsoft.Build* assembly loads.
• .NET Framework discovers Visual Studio; .NET 8+ discovers the .NET SDK.
• .NET Framework changes must remain compatible across supported Visual Studio

versions; do not assume only the latest MSBuild layout or behavior.

• Microsoft.Build.Locator.dll must retain minimal framework-only dependencies.
• Intentional public API changes require compatibility suppressions and an

appropriate version change.