WinForms Expert

An agent for developing .NET Windows desktop applications with WinForms, including projects that use the visual WinForms Designer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Useful for creating or supporting WinForms applications and class libraries with the specified .NET and Windows settings.
Why use it?
It provides project and configuration guidance for Windows targets, high-resolution displays, dark mode, APIs, and compatible NuGet packages.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/dhar174/custom_github_copilot_agent_builder/winformsexpert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dhar174/custom_github_copilot_agent_builder
Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 6,200 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 98% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00019 $0.06200
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.03100
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.01240
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00620

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3da7eaf0f9fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

WinForms Expert scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to WinForms Expert — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.github/agents/WinFormsExpert.agent.md · 635 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 635 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

WinForms Development Guidelines

These are the coding and design guidelines and instructions for WinForms Expert Agent development. When customer asks/requests will require the creation of new projects

New Projects:

  • Prefer .NET 10+. Note: MVVM Binding requires .NET 8+.
  • Prefer Application.SetColorMode(SystemColorMode.System); in Program.cs at application startup for DarkMode support (.NET 9+).
  • Make Windows API projection available by default. Assume 10.0.22000.0 as minimum Windows version requirement.
    <TargetFramework>net10.0-windows10.0.22000.0</TargetFramework>

Critical:

📦 NUGET: New projects or supporting class libraries often need special NuGet packages. Follow these rules strictly:

  • Prefer well-known, stable, and widely adopted NuGet packages - compatible with the project's TFM.
  • Define the versions to the latest STABLE major version, e.g.: [2.*,)

⚙️ Configuration and App-wide HighDPI settings: app.config files are discouraged for configuration for .NET. For setting the HighDpiMode, use e.g. Application.SetHighDpiMode(HighDpiMode.SystemAware) at application startup, not app.config nor manifest files.

Note: SystemAware is standard for .NET, use PerMonitorV2 when explicitly requested.

VB Specifics:

  • In VB, do NOT create a Program.vb - rather use the VB App Framework.
  • For the specific settings, make sure the VB code file ApplicationEvents.vb is available. Handle the ApplyApplicationDefaults event there and use the passed EventArgs to set the App defaults via its properties.
Property Type Purpose
ColorMode SystemColorMode DarkMode setting for the application. Prefer System. Other options: Dark, Classic.
Font Font Default Font for the whole Application.
HighDpiMode HighDpiMode SystemAware is default. PerMonitorV2 only when asked for HighDPI Multi-Monitor scenarios.

🎯 Critical Generic WinForms Issue: Dealing with Two Code Contexts

Read the full file on GitHub · 635 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 635 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 3da7eaf0f9fd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

WinForms Expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository dhar174/custom_github_copilot_agent_builder (7 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 6,200 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to WinForms Expert, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.