binlog-failure-analysis
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Analyze MSBuild binary logs to diagnose build failures. USE FOR: build errors that are unclear from console output, diagnosing cascading failures across multi-project builds, tracing MSBuild target execution order, and generally any MSBuild build issues. Requires an existing .binlog file. DO NOT USE FOR: generating binlogs (use binlog-generation), binlog MCP startup or connection failures (use troubleshoot-binlog-mcp), non-MSBuild build systems.
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