avalonia-wpf-migration

avalonia-wpf-migration is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from linuxdevel/Avalonia-skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,942 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A migration guide for moving Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications to Avalonia, a cross-platform .NET UI framework.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when converting XAML, bindings, MVVM code, controls, styles, templates, triggers, resources, and namespaces from WPF to Avalonia.
Why use it?
It maps familiar WPF concepts to Avalonia equivalents and points out differences that can otherwise cause broken markup or styling.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when converting XAML, bindings, MVVM code, controls, styles, templates, triggers, resources, and namespaces from WPF to Avalonia.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/linuxdevel/avalonia-skills/avalonia-wpf-migration
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 linuxdevel/Avalonia-skills --skill avalonia-wpf-migration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/linuxdevel/Avalonia-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,942 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 $0.00038 $0.01942
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00777
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00194

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0fcdee477e9d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

avalonia-wpf-migration 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 9d 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.

skills/avalonia/avalonia-wpf-migration/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Avalonia WPF Migration

Overview

Target: Avalonia 12.x (12.1.x recommended); 11.x notes are labeled (11.x); see avalonia-versions. Avalonia 12 requires net8.0+ (net10.0 recommended) — .NET Framework and netstandard2.0 targets are not supported, so retarget WPF apps on .NET Framework to modern .NET first (Avalonia 11.3 is the last line supporting them).

Avalonia's API is intentionally WPF-like. Most XAML, binding, and MVVM patterns transfer directly. Key differences: styling system, ControlTemplates → ControlThemes, no Triggers, .axaml extension, namespace differences.

Quick Mapping Table

WPF Avalonia Notes
.xaml .axaml Extension differs
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns="https://github.com/avaloniaui" Root namespace
DependencyProperty StyledProperty / DirectProperty See property system
FrameworkElement Control Base for custom controls
UserControl (base) UserControl Same name, similar API
Control (for lookless) TemplatedControl Different base class
Style with TargetType ControlTheme with TargetType Styling lookless controls
Style with Triggers Style with nested styles + pseudoclasses No Triggers in Avalonia
DataTrigger Binding + pseudoclass / Classes binding Pattern change
ResourceDictionary Source= ResourceInclude Source="avares://..." URI scheme differs
pack://application:,,,/ avares://AssemblyName/ Asset URI scheme
Window.ShowDialog() window.ShowDialog(owner) Requires owner parameter
MessageBox.Show() No built-in — use dialog or notification API removed
Dispatcher.Invoke() Dispatcher.UIThread.InvokeAsync() Async-first
BindingOperations.ClearBinding() control.ClearValue(prop) Slightly different
x:Static x:Static Same
TemplateBinding TemplateBinding Same
RelativeSource Self {Binding $self.Property} Different syntax
RelativeSource AncestorType {Binding $parent[TypeName].Property} Different syntax
EventTrigger + Storyboard Animation in styles Different animation system
BitmapImage + Uri Bitmap + AssetLoader Different image loading
IValueConverter IValueConverter Same interface
IMultiValueConverter IMultiValueConverter Same interface
ObservableCollection<T> ObservableCollection<T> Same
ICommand ICommand Same
CollectionViewSource No equivalent — sort/filter/group in the ViewModel (e.g. DynamicData, LINQ); DataGridCollectionView (Avalonia.Controls.DataGrid) only for DataGrid No ICollectionView infrastructure
GroupBox GroupBox (12.0+) 11.x: HeaderedContentControl + styling
ListView + GridView (read-only columns) TableView (12.1+) 12.0/11.x: DataGrid (Avalonia.Controls.DataGrid) or TreeDataGrid; DataGrid is maintenance-mode
DataGrid (editable) DataGrid (Avalonia.Controls.DataGrid, separate package) Not in core
TextBox watermark (e.g. Watermark in toolkits) TextBox.PlaceholderText (12.0+) 11.x: Watermark (obsolete in 12)
DataObject / IDataObject (clipboard, drag-drop) DataTransfer + DataTransferItem (12.0+) 11.x: DataObject; use DragDrop.DoDragDropAsync, DragEventArgs.DataTransfer
DragDrop.DoDragDrop await DragDrop.DoDragDropAsync(...) (12.0+)
Clipboard.SetText/GetText clipboard.SetTextAsync / TryGetTextAsync Async
Frame + NavigationService ContentControl + ViewModel swap MVVM pattern preferred

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 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. 9d ago Changed · +19 lines 0fcdee477e9d
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 146 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 4b557b9c3de9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

avalonia-wpf-migration is a skill published in the GitHub repository linuxdevel/Avalonia-skills (48 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,942 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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