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devexpress-winforms-ribbon-and-bars

devexpress-winforms-ribbon-and-bars is a skill for Claude Code from DevExpress/agent-skills. It costs 233 tokens per session (6,344 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to DevExpress WinForms controls for application commands and menus, including Office-style ribbons and traditional toolbars, menus, and status bars. It explains how shared command items appear in different parts of the interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create ribbon interfaces, classic menus and toolbars, status bars, command buttons, check items, drop-downs, and backstage views.
Why use it?
It helps avoid common WinForms setup errors, such as using the wrong host form for a ribbon or confusing WinForms controls with WPF controls.

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

not rated 53repo +3 24d ago A scan SkillSpector: pass 233 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to create ribbon interfaces, classic menus and toolbars, status bars, command buttons, check items, drop-downs, and backstage views.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/devexpress/agent-skills/devexpress-winforms-ribbon-and-bars
View source ↗ DevExpress/agent-skills devexpress.com
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-ribbon-and-bars
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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README.md
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Per session 233 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,344 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 $0.00233 $0.06344
Opus 5 $0.00117 $0.03172
Sonnet 5 $0.00047 $0.01269
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00634

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3ee6bd83a6b6, 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-ribbon-and-bars 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-winforms/skills/devexpress-winforms-ribbon-and-bars/SKILL.md · 307 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 307 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DevExpress WinForms Ribbon and Bars

DevExpress.XtraBars is one library that ships both Ribbon UI (RibbonControl + RibbonForm + RibbonStatusBar + BackstageViewControl) and the classic Bars system (BarManager + Bar + BarDockControl). Both stacks share the same items/links architecture — every command is a non-visual BarItem (BarButtonItem, BarCheckItem, BarEditItem, BarSubItem, BarStaticItem, BarHeaderItem, RibbonGalleryBarItem, …) and every visible button/dropdown is a BarItemLink referencing one of those items. The same BarButtonItem can appear in a ribbon page group, the QAT, the page header area, a popup menu, and a status bar at once; clicking any link fires the item's one ItemClick handler.

WinForms vs WPF terminology — three corrections to the prompt:

  1. The host form for a Ribbon must inherit from DevExpress.XtraBars.Ribbon.RibbonForm (not ThemedWindow — that is WPF). RibbonForm derives from XtraForm and integrates the ribbon into the non-client area for QAT + caption bar items.
  2. There is no separate MainMenuControl / StatusBarControl / ToolBarControl in WinForms — those names belong to the WPF Bars stack. In WinForms, BarManager hosts a collection of Bar objects; the bar assigned to BarManager.MainMenu plays the main-menu role, BarManager.StatusBar plays the status-bar role, and any other Bar with DockStyle = Top/Bottom/Left/Right is a toolbar.
  3. There is no WinForms-native MVVM framework in DevExpress on par with WPF's. The cross-platform DevExpress.Mvvm package (separately installable) does work in WinForms — you can use BindableBase, DelegateCommand, and INotifyPropertyChanged with BindingSource to data-bind BarItem.Caption/Enabled/Visible/Down, and a Bind-style helper to wire ItemClick to a ICommand. This is the pragmatic substitute for ribbon MVVM in WinForms.

When to Use This Skill

(The detailed API surface per task is in the Navigation Guide below.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 307 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. 12d ago First seen · 307 lines · 233 tokens per session scan A 3ee6bd83a6b6

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devexpress-winforms-ribbon-and-bars is a skill published in the GitHub repository DevExpress/agent-skills (53 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 233 tokens to every session and 6,344 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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