diff --git a/src/xunit.console.netcore/CommandLine.cs b/src/xunit.console.netcore/CommandLine.cs
index 4c7df4fc4f..4b9b5a641a 100644
--- a/src/xunit.console.netcore/CommandLine.cs
+++ b/src/xunit.console.netcore/CommandLine.cs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
+using Xunit.ConsoleClient.Project;
 
 namespace Xunit.ConsoleClient
 {
@@ -14,18 +15,56 @@ protected CommandLine(string[] args, Predicate<string> fileExists = null)
                 fileExists = fileName => File.Exists(fileName);
 
             for (var i = args.Length - 1; i >= 0; i--)
+            {
+                if (args[i][0] == '@')
+                {
+                    // Parse response file
+                    IList<string> rspArguments = ParseResponseFile(args[i].Substring(1));
+                    for (int j = rspArguments.Count - 1; j >= 0; j--)
+                        arguments.Push(rspArguments[j]);
+                    continue;
+                }
                 arguments.Push(args[i]);
+            }
 
             TeamCity = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("TEAMCITY_PROJECT_NAME") != null;
             AppVeyor = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("APPVEYOR_API_URL") != null;
             Project = Parse(fileExists);
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Parse a response file passed as a command-line arguments.
+        /// No verification here to make this completely opaque
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="responseFile">Path to the response file</param>
+        /// <param name="arguments">The data structure in</param>
+        private IList<string> ParseResponseFile(string responseFile)
+        {
+
+            var argumentsList = new List<string>();
+
+            if (!File.Exists(responseFile))
+                throw new ArgumentException(String.Format("Response file {0} not found", responseFile));
+
+            // Add contents from the text file to the command line
+            foreach (string line in File.ReadAllLines(responseFile))
+            {
+                string cleanLine = line.Trim();
+                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(cleanLine))
+                    continue;
+                var rspArguments = cleanLine.Split();
+                foreach(string arg in rspArguments)
+                    argumentsList.Add(arg);
+            }
+
+            return argumentsList;
+        }
+
         public bool AppVeyor { get; protected set; }
 
         public int? MaxParallelThreads { get; set; }
 
-        public XunitProject Project { get; protected set; }
+        public ExtendedXunitProject Project { get; protected set; }
 
         public bool? ParallelizeAssemblies { get; protected set; }
 
@@ -40,9 +79,9 @@ protected CommandLine(string[] args, Predicate<string> fileExists = null)
         public bool Wait { get; protected set; }
 
 
-        static XunitProject GetProjectFile(List<Tuple<string, string>> assemblies)
+        static ExtendedXunitProject GetProjectFile(List<Tuple<string, string>> assemblies)
         {
-            var result = new XunitProject();
+            var result = new ExtendedXunitProject();
 
             foreach (var assembly in assemblies)
                 result.Add(new XunitProjectAssembly
@@ -65,7 +104,7 @@ public static CommandLine Parse(params string[] args)
             return new CommandLine(args);
         }
 
-        protected XunitProject Parse(Predicate<string> fileExists)
+        protected ExtendedXunitProject Parse(Predicate<string> fileExists)
         {
             var assemblies = new List<Tuple<string, string>>();
 
@@ -223,6 +262,25 @@ protected XunitProject Parse(Predicate<string> fileExists)
 
                     project.Filters.IncludedMethods.Add(option.Value);
                 }
+                else if (optionName == "-skipmethod")
+                {
+                    if (option.Value == null)
+                        throw new ArgumentException("missing argument for -skipmethod");
+                    project.Filters.ExcludedMethods.Add(option.Value);
+
+                }
+                else if (optionName == "-skipclass")
+                {
+                    if (option.Value == null)
+                        throw new ArgumentException("missing argument for -skipclass");
+                    project.Filters.ExcludedClasses.Add(option.Value);
+                }
+                else if (optionName == "-skipnamespace")
+                {
+                    if (option.Value == null)
+                        throw new ArgumentException("missing argument for -skipnamespace");
+                    project.Filters.ExcludedNamespaces.Add(option.Value);
+                }
                 else
                 {
                     if (option.Value == null)
diff --git a/src/xunit.console.netcore/Filters/ExtendedXunitFilters.cs b/src/xunit.console.netcore/Filters/ExtendedXunitFilters.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b51b5fe741
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/xunit.console.netcore/Filters/ExtendedXunitFilters.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using Xunit.Abstractions;
+
+namespace Xunit.ConsoleClient.Filters
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Wrapper class, which hides XunitFilters' Filter method and adds logic to exclude methods or namespaces
+    /// </summary>
+    public class ExtendedXunitFilters : XunitFilters
+    {
+        public HashSet<string> ExcludedMethods { get; private set; }
+        public HashSet<string> ExcludedClasses { get; private set; }
+        public HashSet<string> ExcludedNamespaces { get; private set; }
+
+        public ExtendedXunitFilters() : base()
+        {
+            ExcludedMethods = new HashSet<string>();
+            ExcludedClasses = new HashSet<string>();
+            ExcludedNamespaces = new HashSet<string>();
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Determine whether a passed test case should run
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="testCase">Test case to filter</param>
+        /// <returns>Boolean - True runs the test case, False skips</returns>
+        public new bool Filter(ITestCase testCase)
+        {
+            // Exclusions supersede inclusions - i.e. if a method/class/namespace is both included and excluded it won't run
+            return FilterExcludedMethodsAndClasses(testCase) && base.Filter(testCase);
+        }
+
+        bool FilterExcludedMethodsAndClasses(ITestCase testCase)
+        {
+            // If no explicit exclusions have been defined, return true
+            if (ExcludedMethods.Count == 0 && ExcludedClasses.Count == 0 && ExcludedNamespaces.Count == 0)
+                return true;
+
+            if (ExcludedClasses.Count != 0 && ExcludedClasses.Contains(testCase.TestMethod.TestClass.Class.Name))
+                return false;
+
+            var methodName = $"{testCase.TestMethod.TestClass.Class.Name}.{testCase.TestMethod.Method.Name}";
+
+            if (ExcludedMethods.Count != 0 && ExcludedMethods.Contains(methodName))
+                return false;
+
+            if (ExcludedNamespaces.Count != 0 && ExcludedNamespaces.Any(a => testCase.TestMethod.TestClass.Class.Name.StartsWith($"{a}.", StringComparison.Ordinal)))
+                return false;
+
+            return true;
+        }
+
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/xunit.console.netcore/Program.cs b/src/xunit.console.netcore/Program.cs
index a016da4fc9..fd6969ae75 100644
--- a/src/xunit.console.netcore/Program.cs
+++ b/src/xunit.console.netcore/Program.cs
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 using System.Reflection;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using System.Xml.Linq;
+using Xunit.ConsoleClient.Filters;
+using Xunit.ConsoleClient.Project;
 
 namespace Xunit.ConsoleClient
 {
@@ -175,7 +177,7 @@ static void PrintUsage()
             );
         }
 
-        static int RunProject(string defaultDirectory, XunitProject project, bool teamcity, bool appVeyor, bool showProgress, bool? parallelizeAssemblies, bool? parallelizeTestCollections, int? maxThreadCount)
+        static int RunProject(string defaultDirectory, ExtendedXunitProject project, bool teamcity, bool appVeyor, bool showProgress, bool? parallelizeAssemblies, bool? parallelizeTestCollections, int? maxThreadCount)
         {
             XElement assembliesElement = null;
             var xmlTransformers = TransformFactory.GetXmlTransformers(project);
@@ -280,7 +282,7 @@ static XmlTestExecutionVisitor CreateVisitor(object consoleLock, string defaultD
             return new StandardOutputVisitor(consoleLock, defaultDirectory, assemblyElement, () => cancel, completionMessages, showProgress);
         }
 
-        static XElement ExecuteAssembly(object consoleLock, string defaultDirectory, XunitProjectAssembly assembly, bool needsXml, bool teamCity, bool appVeyor, bool showProgress, bool? parallelizeTestCollections, int? maxThreadCount, XunitFilters filters)
+        static XElement ExecuteAssembly(object consoleLock, string defaultDirectory, XunitProjectAssembly assembly, bool needsXml, bool teamCity, bool appVeyor, bool showProgress, bool? parallelizeTestCollections, int? maxThreadCount, ExtendedXunitFilters filters)
         {
             if (cancel)
                 return null;
diff --git a/src/xunit.console.netcore/Project/ExtendedXunitProject.cs b/src/xunit.console.netcore/Project/ExtendedXunitProject.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5da9319c85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/xunit.console.netcore/Project/ExtendedXunitProject.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using Xunit.ConsoleClient.Filters;
+
+namespace Xunit.ConsoleClient.Project
+{
+    public class ExtendedXunitProject : XunitProject
+    {
+        public new ExtendedXunitFilters Filters { get; private set; }
+        public ExtendedXunitProject() : base()
+        {
+            Filters = new ExtendedXunitFilters();
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/xunit.console.netcore/Utility/TransformFactory.cs b/src/xunit.console.netcore/Utility/TransformFactory.cs
index 3c8bb50806..f21b8e7639 100644
--- a/src/xunit.console.netcore/Utility/TransformFactory.cs
+++ b/src/xunit.console.netcore/Utility/TransformFactory.cs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 using System.Reflection;
 using System.Xml;
 using System.Xml.Linq;
+using Xunit.ConsoleClient.Project;
 
 #if !NETCORE
 using System.Configuration;
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ public static List<Transform> AvailableTransforms
             get { return instance.availableTransforms.Values.ToList(); }
         }
 
-        public static List<Action<XElement>> GetXmlTransformers(XunitProject project)
+        public static List<Action<XElement>> GetXmlTransformers(ExtendedXunitProject project)
         {
             return project.Output.Select(output => new Action<XElement>(xml => instance.availableTransforms[output.Key].OutputHandler(xml, output.Value))).ToList();
         }
diff --git a/src/xunit.console.netcore/xunit.console.netcore.csproj b/src/xunit.console.netcore/xunit.console.netcore.csproj
index 0263ee41ba..f375f3a389 100644
--- a/src/xunit.console.netcore/xunit.console.netcore.csproj
+++ b/src/xunit.console.netcore/xunit.console.netcore.csproj
@@ -41,7 +41,9 @@
       <Link>Common\TestDiscoveryVisitor.cs</Link>
     </Compile>
     <Compile Include="CommandLine.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="Filters\ExtendedXunitFilters.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Program.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="Project\ExtendedXunitProject.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs" />
     <Compile Include="RunnerCallbacks\RunnerCallback.cs" />
     <Compile Include="RunnerCallbacks\StandardRunnerCallback.cs" />