Ansight .NET Inspection Semantics

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name: ansight-app-inspection-dotnet
description: Add .NET MAUI and .NET mobile platform semantics to an Ansight operation. Use alongside a selected core Ansight workflow when MAUI hierarchy, bindings, handlers, native rendering, reflection, or .NET tool behavior affects interpretation; do not use as the primary live-operation, remote-tool, session-investigation, or annotation workflow.
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# Ansight .NET Inspection Semantics

Use this companion skill for .NET MAUI, .NET for Android, .NET for iOS, or .NET Mac Catalyst evidence. Do not use it for native-only iOS or Android, React Native, Flutter, server, console, or web apps.

## Keep The Core Workflow In Charge

Select the skill that owns the requested outcome before applying these .NET semantics:

- live lifecycle or visible UI interaction: `https://www.ansight.ai/skills/agents/ansight-operate-live-app/SKILL.md`
- bundled or app-specific remote tools: `https://www.ansight.ai/skills/agents/ansight-use-remote-app-tools/SKILL.md`
- live or recorded evidence investigation: `https://www.ansight.ai/skills/agents/ansight-investigate-session/SKILL.md`
- annotation writes: `https://www.ansight.ai/skills/agents/ansight-annotate-session/SKILL.md`

The selected core skill owns session selection, authorization, command procedure, verification, reporting, and any relevant workspace reuse. Use this skill only to interpret .NET-specific evidence or choose among cataloged .NET tool families.

## Capture Source Semantics

SDK and external capture are both valid for visible UI and retained evidence on supported iOS/Android targets. Keep the core skill's chosen mode. External capture exposes device screenshots and accessibility UI; MAUI hierarchy, bindings, handlers, reflection, and app-owned state require an SDK session and the relevant advertised tools. Do not infer framework internals from an external accessibility tree or install an SDK merely because those internals are unavailable. Native logs, metrics, and sandbox files follow the physical/virtual platform limits in the live-operation skill.

## Interpret .NET UI Evidence

- Prefer cataloged `maui.*` tools when the question requires MAUI page, element, bindable-property, binding, resource, layout, handler, navigation, or binding-context semantics that the unified tree does not expose.
- Use cataloged native `ui.*` tools when the issue concerns the rendered UIKit or Android hierarchy, native screenshots, platform widgets, overlays, or native hit testing.
- Treat MAUI, native, and reflection identifiers as separate namespaces unless a returned schema explicitly connects them.
- Correlate screenshots with the relevant MAUI or native tree when layout, visibility, labels, hit targets, or navigation state matter.

## Interpret .NET State And Tools

- Treat `maui.*`, `ui.*`, database, file, preference, secure-storage, artifact, and `reflect.*` families as optional catalog entries rather than guaranteed .NET capabilities.
- Use `reflect.*` only against roots returned by `reflect.list_roots`. It normally comes from `Ansight.Tools.Reflection` or an all-in-one package enabled in a Debug or explicit local-development configuration.
- An absent reflection catalog may mean the development-only suite, runtime policy, or local guard is intentionally unavailable; report that state instead of enabling it automatically.
- MAUI operations such as setting bindable properties, inflating XAML, adding elements, invoking element actions, or invoking binding-context commands are remote mutations. Follow the core remote-tool skill's authorization, baseline, verification, and cleanup rules.

## Platform Fallbacks

Use direct simulator, emulator, device, app-container, or source inspection only after the owning core skill identifies a concrete Ansight capability gap. Report whether the gap was in the MAUI view, native hierarchy, cataloged tools, retained evidence, or device control, and identify the fallback used.

## Report .NET-Specific Evidence

In addition to the core skill's report, name the observed .NET target shape and distinguish evidence from the MAUI tree, native hierarchy, reflection roots, or other cataloged .NET tool families.