WinForms Expert

WinForms Expert is an agent for Claude Code from github/awesome-copilot. It costs 19 tokens per session (6,191 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of development guidelines for building Windows desktop applications with .NET WinForms, including apps that work with the visual form designer. WinForms is a .NET interface toolkit for making windows, forms, buttons, and other desktop controls.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or changing .NET WinForms applications, projects, supporting libraries, and designer-compatible user interfaces.
Why use it?
It gives consistent project, Windows compatibility, display, package, and application-structure guidance for WinForms development.

Agent for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it when creating or changing .NET WinForms applications, projects, supporting libraries, and designer-compatible user interfaces.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/github/awesome-copilot/winformsexpert
About the project

Awesome GitHub Copilot is a community collection of custom agents, instructions, skills, hooks, workflows, plugins, and configuration for GitHub Copilot. It helps Copilot users customize coding and development tasks. Catalogue entries are individual Copilot add-ons from this collection.

github/awesome-copilot · 40,052 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 6,191 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found 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 5.1 $0.00019 $0.06191
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.02476
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.01238
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00619

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b3b589131d7e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

agents/WinFormsExpert.agent.md · 629 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 629 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 · 629 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. 1mo ago First seen · 629 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A b3b589131d7e

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WinForms Expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository github/awesome-copilot (40,052 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 6,191 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.