devexpress-winforms-accordion

devexpress-winforms-accordion is a skill for Claude Code from DevExpress/agent-skills. It costs 188 tokens per session (3,901 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to DevExpress AccordionControl, a collapsible side menu for Windows desktop applications built with WinForms. It supports nested groups, clickable items, and optional content areas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create side navigation, add expandable groups and items, generate menus from lists or database results, embed controls in menu sections, customize appearance, or add menu search.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to build hierarchical navigation without manually wiring each menu layout. It also covers menus generated from data and a hamburger-style presentation.

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-winforms plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create side navigation, add expandable groups and items, generate menus from lists or database results, embed controls in menu sections, customize appearance, or add menu search.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/devexpress/agent-skills/devexpress-winforms-accordion
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-winforms-accordion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DevExpress/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dx-winforms, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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Per session 188 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,901 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 $0.00188 $0.03901
Opus 5 $0.00094 $0.01951
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00780
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00390

Measured 11d ago against content hash 13f19bdd9724, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devexpress-winforms-accordion 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-winforms/skills/devexpress-winforms-accordion/SKILL.md · 342 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 342 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DevExpress WinForms Accordion Control

AccordionControl is a side-navigation control that renders a hierarchical, expandable menu of groups and items. It is the recommended navigation control for new WinForms applications — more flexible than NavBarControl, and capable of serving as a full Hamburger Menu when ViewType = HamburgerMenu.

Groups (ElementStyle.Group) are expandable containers. Items (ElementStyle.Item) are clickable leaves that can optionally embed arbitrary WinForms controls inside an expandable content container. The hierarchy is unlimited in depth.

The control lives in the DevExpress.XtraBars.Navigation namespace and ships with the DevExpress.Win.Navigation NuGet package.

When to Use This Skill

  • Setting up a side navigation menu in a WinForms application
  • Adding groups, items, and content containers to an AccordionControl
  • Generating menu items programmatically from data (lists, database queries, configuration)
  • Switching the control to Hamburger Menu style and configuring display modes
  • Customizing item headers, icons, appearance, and HTML-CSS templates
  • Enabling search / filter functionality in the navigation menu
  • Choosing between AccordionControl, NavBarControl, and Hamburger Menu style
  • Integrating with NavigationFrame, RibbonForm, or FluentDesignForm

Prerequisites & Installation

NuGet Package

DevExpress.Win.Navigation
Install-Package DevExpress.Win.Navigation

Required Namespace Imports

using DevExpress.XtraBars.Navigation;
using DevExpress.XtraEditors;        // XtraForm
using DevExpress.XtraBars.Ribbon;    // RibbonForm (optional)

Host Form

Always host AccordionControl on XtraForm (or RibbonForm / FluentDesignForm) — not on plain Form — to get correct skin-aware rendering.

Before You Start — Ask the Developer

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.

Read the full file on GitHub · 342 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 11d ago First seen · 342 lines · 188 tokens per session scan A 13f19bdd9724

Subscribe to this mod's changes

devexpress-winforms-accordion is a skill published in the GitHub repository DevExpress/agent-skills (52 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 188 tokens to every session and 3,901 once invoked, about $0.0009 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.

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