scaffolding

$npx mdskill add dotnet/efcore/scaffolding

Generates C# code from database schemas (reverse engineering) using EF Core scaffolding

  • Automatically creates entity classes and related files based on existing database schema.
  • Depends on `IDatabaseModelFactory` for reading the database schema, and `IReverseEngineerScaffolder` to orchestrate the process.
  • Decides what to generate by following the EF Core scaffolding pipeline steps: reading schema, building EF model, generating C# code.
  • Delivers generated C# classes and files directly to the project for integration.

SKILL.md

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---
name: scaffolding
description: 'Implementation details for EF Core scaffolding (reverse engineering). Use when changing ef dbcontext scaffold pipeline implementation, database schema reading, CSharpModelGenerator, or related classes.'
user-invocable: false
---

# Scaffolding

Generates C# code from database schemas (reverse engineering).

## When Not to Use

- Working on compiled model generation (`dotnet ef dbcontext optimize`)

## Reverse Engineering

Pipeline: `IDatabaseModelFactory` (reads schema) → `IScaffoldingModelFactory` (builds EF model) → `IModelCodeGenerator` (generates C#)
- `IReverseEngineerScaffolder` — orchestrates full pipeline

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