Please note: ToolGet has been shutdown in favour of the official .NET Tool search experiences from NuGet and .NET CLI. .NET Tools is a feature that was released with .NET Core 2.1 and provides the following functionality according to the docs: A .NET Tool is a special NuGet package that contains a console application. A Tool can be installed on your machine on a default location that is included in the PATH environment variable or on a custom location.