winui-control-theming

winui-control-theming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Devolutions/avalonia-extensions. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,952 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of guidelines for creating or refining WinUI-styled control templates and theme resources in an Avalonia application. Avalonia is a cross-platform framework for building .NET user interfaces, while WinUI is Microsoft's Windows interface design system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding a WinUI-like control, moving Fluent styling from another app, choosing brush names, or deciding whether a resource belongs in shared theme resources or a control file.
Why use it?
It keeps controls visually and structurally consistent by reusing recognized WinUI resource names and separating shared colors from control-specific settings.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/devolutions/avalonia-extensions/winui-control-theming
Any agent
npx skills add Devolutions/avalonia-extensions --skill winui-control-theming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Devolutions/avalonia-extensions

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00071 $0.01952
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00976
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00390
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00195

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5840daa3a161, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

winui-control-theming 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.

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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.

.github/skills/winui-control-theming/SKILL.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

WinUI Control Theming

Use this skill when working on src/Devolutions.AvaloniaTheme.WinUI/ and the goal is to add or refine WinUI-styled control themes while staying consistent with the resource strategy already used for this theme.

Core Principle

Prefer official WinUI resource names over made-up local names whenever they can be identified from WinUI source or docs.

This theme should follow the WinUI model as closely as practical:

  • Shared WinUI semantic tokens go in Accents/ThemeResources.axaml
  • Control-specific WinUI resources go in the relevant file under Controls/
  • New local resource names should be introduced only when no real WinUI equivalent exists

Why

Avalonia's Fluent theme is a Fluent-looking base theme, but its resource surface does not always match the newer WinUI token vocabulary. For this theme, the goal is not just to make controls "look good"; it is to make them look WinUI-like using WinUI concepts and names where possible.

That keeps future control work consistent:

  • later controls can reuse the same token set
  • resource names stay recognizable to people familiar with WinUI
  • ad-hoc local naming does not spread across the theme

Required Workflow

When adding or updating a WinUI control theme:

  1. Start from the WinUI control

    • Find the WinUI default template and the theme resources it uses.
    • Extract the actual resource names referenced by the template.
  2. Separate shared tokens from control-specific resources

    • Examples of shared tokens: TextFillColorPrimaryBrush, AccentFillColorDefaultBrush, ControlFillColorDefaultBrush
    • Examples of control resources: ButtonBackground, ButtonForegroundPointerOver, ButtonBorderBrushPressed
  3. Compare against Avalonia Fluent

    • Check the existing Avalonia Fluent control template and resource model.
    • Decide whether the control can be adapted with targeted overrides or needs a fuller template port.
  4. Port only what is needed

    • Do not dump the full WinUI token set into ThemeResources.axaml.
    • Add only the resources that are actually referenced by the new or updated control theme, unless there is a clear near-term reason to add a small shared set together.

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 lines

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 · 171 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 5840daa3a161

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winui-control-theming is a skill published in the GitHub repository Devolutions/avalonia-extensions (79 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,952 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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