diff --git a/.mise.toml b/.mise.toml
index 110fca4c..7fd46c5d 100644
--- a/.mise.toml
+++ b/.mise.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 [tools]
 uv = "latest"
+dotnet = [
+    { version="9.0.304", os=[ "linux", "macos"] },
+    { version="9.0.8", os=[ "windows"] },
+]
+"dotnet:MarkdownSnippets.Tool" = "latest"
 
 [env.'_'.python]
 venv = { path = ".venv", create = true, uv_create_args = ["--seed", "--quiet"] }
@@ -21,3 +26,5 @@ depends = ["pip-install"]
 [settings]
 # we put the python version in the .python-version file instead of here so that it's easy to override in the CI matrix
 idiomatic_version_file_enable_tools = ["python"]
+# dotnet backend is experimental
+experimental = true
diff --git a/run_mdsnippets.sh b/run_mdsnippets.sh
index d8762d79..54122438 100755
--- a/run_mdsnippets.sh
+++ b/run_mdsnippets.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -euo pipefail
 
-dotnet tool install --global MarkdownSnippets.Tool
-mdsnippets .
+mise exec -- mdsnippets .