Let’s get started with our first global tool. In this post we will discuss how you can create global tools when developing on macOS as well as how to prepare them to distribute using NuGet. NET Core Tools - local installation section in Announcing. You can also create local tools, those that are associated with specific projects and not available globally. NET Core is cross platform, your global tools will also work cross platform, assuming your code doesn’t contain any platform specific code. After developing your tool, you can distribute it on, or any other NuGet repository, to share the tool with others. For example, you can create tools to minify image assets, simplify working with source control, or perform any other task that you can automate with the command line. You can use global tools to simplify common tasks during your development workflow. NET Core is the support for global tools.