avalonia-xaml

avalonia-xaml is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from linuxdevel/Avalonia-skills. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,957 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Avalonia XAML, the XML-based markup used to describe user interfaces, along with code-only alternatives.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing .axaml files, configuring bindings and markup extensions, connecting code-behind, or building interfaces without XAML.
Why use it?
It clarifies Avalonia’s file format, namespaces, bindings, compiled-binding requirements, and code-behind structure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when writing or reviewing .axaml files, configuring bindings and markup extensions, connecting code-behind, or building interfaces without XAML.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,957 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 $0.00040 $0.01957
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00783
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00391
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00196

Measured 9d ago against content hash edc28f56dbc9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

avalonia-xaml 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-xaml/SKILL.md · 211 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Avalonia XAML

Overview

Avalonia uses .axaml extension (not .xaml) to avoid Visual Studio WPF tooling conflicts. XAML is optional; full code-only UI is supported. (12.0+) compiled bindings are ON by default (AvaloniaUseCompiledBindingsByDefault=true): {Binding} maps to CompiledBinding, so x:DataType is required wherever bindings are used. In 11.x compiled bindings are opt-in ({CompiledBinding} / x:CompileBindings="True"). Escape hatch: {ReflectionBinding Path} or x:CompileBindings="False".

File Structure

Every .axaml file requires the Avalonia root namespace and language namespace:

<Window xmlns="https://github.com/avaloniaui"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:vm="using:MyApp.ViewModels"
        x:Class="MyApp.MainWindow"
        x:DataType="vm:MainWindowViewModel"
        Title="My App"
        Width="800" Height="450">

    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Greeting}" />

</Window>

Corresponding code-behind:

// MainWindow.axaml.cs
using Avalonia.Controls;

namespace MyApp;

public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
    public MainWindow()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }
}

XML Namespaces

Namespace Syntax

Syntax Use case Example
using: Same solution assemblies (preferred) xmlns:vm="using:MyApp.ViewModels"
clr-namespace: External assemblies (requires ;assembly=) xmlns:ctrl="clr-namespace:MyLib.Controls;assembly=MyLib"
URI Framework namespaces xmlns="https://github.com/avaloniaui"

Common Namespaces

Prefix URI / Syntax Purpose
(default) https://github.com/avaloniaui All Avalonia controls
x: http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml XAML language features
vm: using:MyApp.ViewModels ViewModel types
conv: using:MyApp.Converters Converter classes
sys: using:System System types (Math, String, etc.)

Markup Extensions

Read the full file on GitHub · 211 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 · +13 lines edc28f56dbc9
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 198 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 9782cfef0dcc

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avalonia-xaml is a skill published in the GitHub repository linuxdevel/Avalonia-skills (48 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,957 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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