winapp CLI is a command-line tool for Windows application development that manages SDKs, app identity, manifests, certificates, packaging, and build tools. It helps developers using frameworks such as .NET, Win32, CMake, Electron, or Rust access Windows-native development capabilities. The catalogue add-ons provide agent workflows for using the CLI.
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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/winappCliWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/plugins/microsoft/winappcli/winapp)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/plugins/microsoft/winappcli/winapp"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/microsoft/winappcli/winapp/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
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winappcli 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 13d 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.
What it actually says
{
"name": "winappcli",
"description": "Windows app development, packaging, and distribution. Helps with creating Windows installers (MSIX), code signing, certificates, Windows SDK and Windows App SDK setup, package identity for Windows APIs (push notifications, background tasks, share target), appxmanifest authoring, and Microsoft Store distribution. Supports Electron, .NET, C++, Rust, Flutter, and Tauri apps.",
"version": "0.7.2",
"author": {
"name": "Microsoft",
"url": "https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppCli"
},
"homepage": "https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppCli",
"repository": "https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppCli",
"license": "MIT",
"keywords": [
"windows",
"msix",
"packaging",
"installer",
"identity",
"electron",
"winapp",
"windows app sdk",
"windows sdk",
"appxmanifest.xml",
"appxmanifest",
"code signing",
"certificate",
"pfx",
"signtool",
"makeappx",
"windows store",
"microsoft store",
"windows distribution",
"windows packaging",
"windows installer",
"package identity",
"sparse package",
"push notifications",
"background tasks",
"share target",
"startup task",
"tauri",
"flutter",
"rust",
"dotnet",
"wpf",
"winforms",
"cpp",
"cppwinrt",
"windows api",
"winrt",
"uwp",
"desktop app",
"win32"
],
"agents": [
"./com.github.copilot/agents/winapp.agent.md"
]
}
What it installs
The manifest is a name and a version. 13 skills, 1 agent travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 962 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.
- Skill winapp-find-api A 78 tokens
- Skill winapp-setup A 71 tokens
- Skill winapp-find-ui A 75 tokens
- Skill winapp-frameworks A 73 tokens
- Skill winapp-identity A 65 tokens
- Skill winapp-maui A 68 tokens
- Skill winapp-package A 77 tokens
- Skill winapp-sandbox A 62 tokens
- Skill winapp-signing A 67 tokens
- Skill winapp-manifest A 65 tokens
- Skill winapp-performance A 46 tokens
- Skill winapp-troubleshoot B 73 tokens
- Skill winapp-ui-automation C 74 tokens
- Agent winapp A 68 tokens
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.
- 13d ago Changed 1d132e80a6ed
- 21d ago Changed db2a1651f7fe
- 1mo ago First seen · 58 lines scan A 2ec6266512e3
winappcli is a plugin published in the GitHub repository microsoft/winappCli (1,314 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.
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