devexpress-reports-core

devexpress-reports-core is a skill for Claude Code from DevExpress/agent-skills. It costs 110 tokens per session (6,944 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A .NET reporting skill builds DevExpress XtraReports in code. It supports report sections, tables, charts, parameters, data binding, calculated fields, grouping, and exports such as PDF, Excel, Word, and CSV.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for building tables, master-detail reports, cross-tabs, labels, and subreports from application data, then exporting or saving their layouts.
Why use it?
It helps create and save programmatic reports without relying on the visual report designer or viewer.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the dx-reporting plugin — 4 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit It is for building tables, master-detail reports, cross-tabs, labels, and subreports from application data, then exporting or saving their layouts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/devexpress/agent-skills/devexpress-reports-core
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.

Any agent
npx skills add DevExpress/agent-skills --skill devexpress-reports-core
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DevExpress/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dx-reporting, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,944 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00110 $0.06944
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.03472
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.01389
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00694

Measured 11d ago against content hash f2c1290fec7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devexpress-reports-core 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 11d 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.

plugins/dx-reporting/skills/devexpress-reports-core/SKILL.md · 390 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 390 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DevExpress XtraReports — Core Runtime API

When to Use This Skill

CRITICAL — Do not bypass this skill. Whenever this skill is active, follow the patterns and constraints here. Do not substitute your own general knowledge of DevExpress APIs. If a scenario is not covered in the main skill body, read the relevant reference file or use MCP servers before writing code — do not guess API signatures.

Use for any task involving:

  • Creating XtraReport instances and building report structure in code
  • Adding bands (DetailBand, GroupHeaderBand, ReportHeaderBand, etc.)
  • Adding controls (XRLabel, XRTable, XRChart, XRPictureBox, etc.) to bands
  • Binding reports to data sources (IList, DataTable, SqlDataSource, ObjectDataSource)
  • Defining report parameters, calculated fields, and expression bindings
  • Exporting reports: ExportToPdf, ExportToXlsx, ExportToDocx, ExportToCsv, etc.
  • Configuring PdfExportOptions, XlsxExportOptions, etc.
  • Saving/loading report layouts with SaveLayoutToXml / LoadLayoutFromXml
  • Report types: table, master-detail, cross-tab, label, subreport

Scope: This skill covers runtime API only — no viewer UI, no print preview, no designer embedding. For platform-specific viewer integration, see: devexpress-reports-aspnetcore, devexpress-reports-blazor, devexpress-reports-winforms, or devexpress-reports-wpf.

Before You Start

If the host agent has a structured question-asking tool available, use it to ask these questions one at a time with clear options — for example, Claude Code's AskUserQuestion tool or GitHub Copilot's askQuestions tool. If no such tool is available, ask the questions directly in the chat response before generating code.

Ask the developer:

  1. Target framework: .NET 8+ or .NET Framework 4.x?
  2. Platform: WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, console/service, or MAUI?
  3. Operation: Create a new report in code? Load existing .repx layout? Modify an existing report class?
  4. Data source: What data are you binding? (IList/collection, DataTable/DataSet, EF DbContext, SQL database, JSON, Excel, none)
  5. Output: Export to file/stream? Which format(s)? Or display in a viewer?
  6. Existing NuGet setup: Are DevExpress packages already installed, or starting fresh?

Read the full file on GitHub · 390 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. 11d ago First seen · 390 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A f2c1290fec7f

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devexpress-reports-core is a skill published in the GitHub repository DevExpress/agent-skills (52 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 6,944 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 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.