devexpress-wpf-grid-datasource

devexpress-wpf-grid-datasource is a skill for Claude Code from DevExpress/agent-skills. It costs 96 tokens per session (2,552 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for choosing how a DevExpress WPF grid or tree list gets its data. It covers collections, database-backed sources, virtual sources, server-side loading, and sources designed for frequently changing data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when binding a GridControl or TreeListControl to application data, a database, or a REST API, especially when the data set is large or changes often.
Why use it?
Choosing the wrong data source can make a grid slow, use too much memory, or handle updates poorly. The skill first examines the project and its data size, origin, and update frequency before selecting an approach.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the dx-wpf plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when binding a GridControl or TreeListControl to application data, a database, or a REST API, especially when the data set is large or changes often.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dx-wpf, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,552 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.
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 $0.00096 $0.02552
Opus 5.5 $0.00038 $0.01021
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00510
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00255

Measured 3d ago against content hash e61df834d265, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devexpress-wpf-grid-datasource 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 3d 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-wpf/skills/devexpress-wpf-grid-datasource/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Step 1 — Learn the decision criteria

Read references/source-selection.md for its decision tree — the signals (data origin, update frequency, data volume) that map onto each destination family. Don't select a source yet; this is only so Step 2's inspection knows which points to spot and highlight.

Step 2 — Inspect

Spawn inspect (see Subagent protocol). It finds the GridControl/TreeListControl/View target (or reports none exists), classifies the three signals per references/code-inspection.md, and returns a files-of-interest list.

Skip delegation only when no sub-agent/subtask dispatch tool exists at all, or the target and signals are already known from earlier in this conversation — then inspect inline using references/code-inspection.md yourself. This fallback is scoped to this step only — it never extends to Steps 5/6 (see there).

Step 3 — Ask only what's unresolved

Ask about any signal inspect left unresolved — one question at a time via a structured tool if available (AskUserQuestion, Copilot's askQuestions), inline chat otherwise. State what was inferred from code first. If the developer already stated a signal in their request, treat it as known — never re-ask it.

Step 4 may not begin until every signal is resolved — answered by the developer, or already known from code/request. An unresolved signal (Data Volume most often, since references/code-inspection.md treats it as ask-only by default) is a hard stop here, not a value to carry forward and default. Mentioning the assumption to the developer after generating code is not a substitute for asking before — if you catch yourself about to write "I'm assuming X rows" instead of asking, that is this step being skipped; go back and ask instead.

Step 4 — Select the source

Apply source-selection.md's decision tree (read in Step 1) to map (origin, frequency, volume) onto a destination family and its pinned doc URL(s). Every input to the tree must already be a resolved value from Step 2/3 — never feed it an unresolved signal (see the tree's own note on this).

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 3d ago First seen · 65 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A e61df834d265

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devexpress-wpf-grid-datasource is a skill published in the GitHub repository DevExpress/agent-skills (66 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 2,552 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-20.

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