component-development

A development workflow for building Blazor components that behave like ASP.NET Web Forms controls.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create component files, choose the right base class, match Web Forms output, add unit and browser tests, make sample pages, and document the result.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork about component structure, inherited behavior, rendered HTML, tests, examples, documentation, and navigation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fritzandfriends/blazorwebformscomponents/component-development
Any agent
npx skills add FritzAndFriends/BlazorWebFormsComponents --skill component-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FritzAndFriends/BlazorWebFormsComponents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 968 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00115 $0.00968
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00484
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00194
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00097

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2ed5e4a4c797, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

component-development 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 2d 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.

.github/skills/component-development/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Component Development Skill

This skill covers creating new Blazor components that emulate ASP.NET Web Forms controls.

Quick Reference

Creating a New Component

  1. Identify the Web Forms control from System.Web.UI.WebControls
  2. Research the HTML output using the HTML Output Matching Guide
  3. Create component files:
    • src/BlazorWebFormsComponents/{ComponentName}.razor
    • src/BlazorWebFormsComponents/{ComponentName}.razor.cs
  4. Inherit from appropriate base class:
    • BaseWebFormsComponent - Basic components
    • BaseStyledComponent - Components with styling
    • DataBoundComponent<T> - Data-bound components
  5. Add unit tests in src/BlazorWebFormsComponents.Test/{ComponentName}/
  6. Add sample page in samples/AfterBlazorServerSide/Components/Pages/ControlSamples/{ComponentName}/
  7. Add integration tests using Playwright in samples/AfterBlazorServerSide.Tests/
  8. Create documentation in docs/{Category}/{ComponentName}.md
  9. Update navigation:
    • Add to samples/AfterBlazorServerSide/Components/Layout/NavMenu.razor (TreeView)
    • Add to samples/AfterBlazorServerSide/Components/Pages/ComponentList.razor (home page catalog)
    • Update mkdocs.yml and README.md

Base Class Selection

Base Class Use When
BaseWebFormsComponent Simple components without styling (Literal, PlaceHolder)
BaseStyledComponent Components with visual styling (Label, Panel, Button)
ButtonBaseComponent Button-like components (Button, LinkButton, ImageButton)
DataBoundComponent<T> Components binding to collections (Repeater, GridView)
BaseValidator Validation controls

Property Naming Convention

Match Web Forms property names exactly:

  • Text not Label or Content
  • CssClass not Class or ClassName
  • NavigateUrl not Href or Url
  • ImageUrl not Src or Source

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 105 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A 2ed5e4a4c797

Subscribe to this mod's changes

component-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository FritzAndFriends/BlazorWebFormsComponents (449 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 968 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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