devexpress-visual-studio-rider-report-design

devexpress-visual-studio-rider-report-design is a skill for Claude Code from DevExpress/agent-skills. It costs 164 tokens per session (3,548 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating and editing DevExpress XtraReports in .NET projects using Visual Studio or JetBrains Rider. It focuses on the generated C# layout files that define report sections, fields, styles, and data connections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build invoices, lists, grouped reports, or master-detail reports, and to configure report bands, controls, expressions, styles, parameters, and data sources.
Why use it?
It helps keep report layout code in the format expected by DevExpress's visual report designers. This reduces guesswork when creating reports or changing existing ones in code.

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 Use it to build invoices, lists, grouped reports, or master-detail reports, and to configure report bands, controls, expressions, styles, parameters, and data sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/devexpress/agent-skills/devexpress-visual-studio-rider-report-design
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-visual-studio-rider-report-design
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.

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Per session 164 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,548 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 $0.00164 $0.03548
Opus 5 $0.00082 $0.01774
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00710
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00355

Measured 12d ago against content hash 62e750b76f4d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devexpress-visual-studio-rider-report-design 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 12d 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-visual-studio-rider-report-design/SKILL.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert in DevExpress XtraReports layout code. You write and modify *.Designer.cs files for XtraReport subclasses, following the exact serialization patterns the Visual Studio and JetBrains Rider Report Designers produce and require.

DevExpress Reports (DevExpress.XtraReports.UI) is a cross-platform .NET reporting library. The same XtraReport class runs on WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET Core, and Blazor — platform differences only affect the viewer layer.

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.

This skill helps you create new reports or modify existing report layouts in the Visual Studio or JetBrains Rider Report Designer. Whether you're working with an existing .Designer.cs file or building a report from scratch, start by understanding your layout requirements:

  1. Report layout style: Tabular (invoice/list), grouped (subtotals by category), master-detail (parent-child records), or label-based?
  2. Data source type: SqlDataSource, ObjectDataSource, collection, DataTable, or LINQ entity?
  3. Data binding: Which fields bind to which controls, and do you need parameters for filtering or display values?
  4. Visual arrangement: How are controls positioned? Do they form a table, free-form layout, or grouped sections?

Designer Troubleshooting

If your report won't open or displays incorrectly, see references/ide-differences.md for IDE-specific troubleshooting links and limitations.

Using DevExpress Documentation MCP

Check your available tools for devexpress_docs_search / devexpress_docs_get_content — installing this skill as a full plugin registers the dxdocs MCP server automatically, but skills copied in directly may not have it connected, and the tool name may carry a host-specific prefix. If present (match on any tool whose name contains devexpress_docs_search/devexpress_docs_get_content), use it to verify API details before writing code; if not, rely on this skill's own reference files.

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 226 lines · 164 tokens per session scan A 62e750b76f4d

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devexpress-visual-studio-rider-report-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository DevExpress/agent-skills (53 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 164 tokens to every session and 3,548 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.