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NuGet

nuget

NuGet is the package manager for .NET.

Runs as nuget|macOS, Linux, Windows|www.nuget.org

Open form in Otty otty.toml

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

NuGet in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

<add key="globalPackagesFolder"<add key="repositoryPath"

Each machine keeps its own copy of these.

<add key="ClearTextPassword"<add key="Password"<add key="http_proxy.password"

Lifted into your secret store; the rest of the file syncs.

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/nuget/otty.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "nuget"

name = "NuGet"

homepage = "https://www.nuget.org"

description = "NuGet is the package manager for .NET."

# nuget.org's own phrasing, trimmed: "the central package repository for

# NuGet, the package manager for .NET".

icon = "SimpleIcons:nuget"

executables = ["nuget"]

[dotfiles]

# https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/consume-packages/configuring-nuget-behavior

# — the user-level config file is "Windows: %appdata%\NuGet\NuGet.Config

# Mac/Linux: ~/.config/NuGet/NuGet.Config or ~/.nuget/NuGet/NuGet.Config

# (varies by tooling)", and the same page says which of the two Unix spellings

# belongs to this entry: "These other tools look for the user config file under

# the ~/.config/NuGet folder: Mono, NuGet.exe, Visual Studio for Mac". The

# `nuget` command is NuGet.exe, so ~/.config/NuGet is its half; the

# ~/.nuget/NuGet spelling is the .NET CLI's and lives in the `dotnet` entry.

# ~/.config on macOS and Linux beside %APPDATA% on Windows is exactly the

# [configHome] base directory, so one line covers both.

paths = ["[configHome]/NuGet/NuGet.Config"]

exclude = []

# NuGet.Config is package sources and settings; the credentials inside it are

# carved out below rather than being the whole file.

secret = []

# Read once per command invocation, by a process that then exits.

side_effect = false

# https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/reference/nuget-config-file,

# packageSourceCredentials: each source gets an `<add key="Username" …/>` and

# either `<add key="Password" …/>` (encrypted, Windows-only and machine-bound)

# or `<add key="ClearTextPassword" …/>`. The `config` section holds

# `http_proxy.password` on the same shape.

# NuGet.Config is XML, which this catalog's key_path syntax does not parse, so

# these are prefix rules — the tooling writes one `<add key=… />` element per

# line. They catch what `nuget sources add -username -password` writes; a

# hand-reflowed file, and the `<apikeys>` section (whose keys are source URLs

# and so cannot be named by a prefix), are past what a line rule can reach.

[[dotfiles.secret_paths]]

file = "[configHome]/NuGet/NuGet.Config"

match = { prefix = [

"<add key=\"ClearTextPassword\"",

"<add key=\"Password\"",

"<add key=\"http_proxy.password\"",

] }

# globalPackagesFolder and repositoryPath are absolute paths into this

# machine's disk layout; the same file on another machine needs its own.

[[dotfiles.machine_lines]]

file = "[configHome]/NuGet/NuGet.Config"

match = { prefix = [

"<add key=\"globalPackagesFolder\"",

"<add key=\"repositoryPath\"",

] }

[commands]

format = 1

label = "NuGet"

description = "Install a package with nuget.exe into a folder. Restore, pack, push and other subcommands are left out."

quality = "ai-draft"

parser = { end_of_options = "--", interleave = "permute", long_equals = false, short_attached = false, short_bundles = false }

[[commands.subcommand]]

path = ["install"]

label = "Install a package"

description = "Install a package by ID (or from a packages.config) without modifying a project."

[[commands.subcommand.source]]

id = "docs"

kind = "manual"

url = "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/reference/cli-reference/cli-ref-install"

revision = "2026-10-27"

evidence = """nuget install <packageID | configFilePath> [options]

-x|-ExcludeVersion

-NonInteractive

-OutputDirectory

-PreRelease

-Source

-Version

-Framework

-DependencyVersion"""

[[commands.subcommand.field]]

id = "package"

label = "Package ID or packages.config"

type = "string"

position = 0

sources = ["docs"]

[[commands.subcommand.field]]

id = "version"

label = "Version"

description = "Defaults to the latest version."

type = "string"

option = ["-Version"]

sources = ["docs"]

[[commands.subcommand.field]]

id = "output_directory"

label = "Output directory"

description = "Defaults to the current folder."

type = "path"

option = ["-OutputDirectory"]

path = { kind = "directory", role = "output", must_exist = false }

sources = ["docs"]

[[commands.subcommand.field]]

id = "source"

label = "Package source"

type = "string"

option = ["-Source"]

sources = ["docs"]

[[commands.subcommand.field]]

id = "framework"

label = "Target framework"

type = "string"

option = ["-Framework"]

sources = ["docs"]

[[commands.subcommand.field]]

id = "exclude_version"

label = "Folder without version"

type = "boolean"

option = ["-ExcludeVersion", "-x"]

sources = ["docs"]

[[commands.subcommand.field]]

id = "prerelease"

label = "Allow prerelease"

type = "boolean"

option = ["-PreRelease"]

sources = ["docs"]

[[commands.subcommand.field]]

id = "dependency_version"

label = "Dependency version"

type = "enum"

option = ["-DependencyVersion"]

choices = [{ value = "Lowest", label = "Lowest" }, { value = "HighestPatch", label = "HighestPatch" }, { value = "HighestMinor", label = "HighestMinor" }, { value = "Highest", label = "Highest" }, { value = "Ignore", label = "Ignore" }]

sources = ["docs"]

[[commands.subcommand.field]]

id = "non_interactive"

label = "No prompts"

type = "boolean"

option = ["-NonInteractive"]

sources = ["docs"]

[[commands.subcommand.task]]

id = "install"

label = "Install package"

fields = ["package", "version", "output_directory"]

required = ["package"]

[[commands.subcommand.group]]

id = "basic"

label = "Basic"

fields = ["package", "version", "output_directory", "source", "framework"]

[[commands.subcommand.group]]

id = "advanced"

label = "Advanced"

fields = ["exclude_version", "prerelease", "dependency_version", "non_interactive"]

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/nuget. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

Every one of these is generated from the same rules as this page. None of them splits <add key="globalPackagesFolder" and <add key="repositoryPath" for you — that part is Otty’s own sync, or a template you write by hand.