devexpress-wpf-ribbon-and-bars

devexpress-wpf-ribbon-and-bars is a skill for Claude Code from DevExpress/agent-skills. It costs 227 tokens per session (5,619 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of WPF controls for Office-style ribbons, toolbars, menus, and status bars. WPF is Microsoft's framework for building Windows desktop applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build a Microsoft Office-style command area, add menus and toolbars, define actions, and show status information in a WPF application.
Why use it?
It avoids building command menus and their shared buttons, checkboxes, editors, and submenus separately for each part of a desktop window. It also covers the special themed window needed for the ribbon layout.

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-wpf plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to build a Microsoft Office-style command area, add menus and toolbars, define actions, and show status information in a WPF application.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/devexpress/agent-skills/devexpress-wpf-ribbon-and-bars
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-ribbon-and-bars
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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README.md
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Per session 227 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,619 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 $0.00227 $0.05619
Opus 5.5 $0.00091 $0.02248
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00045 $0.01124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00562

Measured 3d ago against content hash c9f8f1af62d7, 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-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 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-ribbon-and-bars/SKILL.md · 403 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 403 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DevExpress WPF Ribbon and Bars

DevExpress.Xpf.Ribbon and DevExpress.Xpf.Bars provide an Office-style command surface for WPF: a tabbed RibbonControl with categories/pages/groups, standalone bar controls (MainMenuControl, ToolBarControl, StatusBarControl), the legacy BarManager aggregator for multi-bar layouts, popup menus, status bars, and a rich set of bar items (BarButtonItem, BarCheckItem, BarSplitButtonItem, BarSubItem, BarEditItem, etc.) that work uniformly across Ribbon, bars, and menus.

ThemedWindow is required, not a regular System.Windows.Window. The Ribbon control needs ThemedWindow to render correctly into the title bar, support WindowKind="Ribbon" integration, and provide MDI merging hooks. Convert plain Window → ThemedWindow before adding Ribbon UI.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you need to:

  • Build a Microsoft Office–style Ribbon UI in a WPF window
  • Add toolbars, main menus, or status bars (modern way: ToolBarControl / MainMenuControl / StatusBarControl; legacy: BarManager with Bar objects)
  • Define bar items (buttons, check buttons, sub-menus, editors, separators, galleries)
  • Wire bar item actions to MVVM commands or code-behind events
  • Populate Ribbon pages / groups / bars from a ViewModel collection
  • Configure the Quick Access Toolbar, Application Menu, BackstageView, or Ribbon Status Bar
  • Set glyphs and switch between large/small icon display modes
  • Customize bar/ribbon element appearance via standard WPF properties and triggers
  • Merge child-window bars/ribbons into the parent in an MDI layout

Prerequisites & Installation

NuGet Packages

Package Purpose
DevExpress.Wpf.Core ThemedWindow, themes, shared infrastructure
DevExpress.Wpf.Ribbon RibbonControl, RibbonPageCategory, RibbonPage, RibbonPageGroup, BackstageViewControl, RibbonStatusBarControl. Includes DevExpress.Xpf.Bars.
DevExpress.Wpf.Docking Only if you need MDI merging via DockLayoutManager

Read the full file on GitHub · 403 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. 3d ago First seen · 403 lines · 227 tokens per session scan A c9f8f1af62d7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

devexpress-wpf-ribbon-and-bars is a skill published in the GitHub repository DevExpress/agent-skills (66 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 227 tokens to every session and 5,619 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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