maui-architect

maui-architect is a skill for Claude Code from tqnonline/agent-forge. It costs 194 tokens per session (3,008 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

An architecture guide for .NET MAUI applications, which use one shared codebase to build mobile and desktop apps for iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan .NET MAUI apps with MVVM, Shell navigation, SQLite storage, Blazor Hybrid interfaces or Azure Notification Hubs push notifications.
Why use it?
It provides consistent choices for navigation, screen structure, data storage and platform features. This helps teams avoid separate designs for each operating system and supports offline use where needed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the msft-arch plugin — 28 skills, 4 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan .NET MAUI apps with MVVM, Shell navigation, SQLite storage, Blazor Hybrid interfaces or Azure Notification Hubs push notifications.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tqnonline/agent-forge/maui-architect
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 tqnonline/agent-forge --skill maui-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tqnonline/agent-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install msft-arch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 4 commands, 2 agents.

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Per session 194 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,008 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 $0.00194 $0.03008
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.01504
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00602
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00301

Measured 9d ago against content hash 712abf284a3f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

maui-architect 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.

plugins/msft-arch/skills/maui-architect/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

.NET MAUI Architecture Specialist

Version: 1.0 | Role: Cross-Platform Mobile/Desktop Architect | Stack: .NET MAUI 9 / CommunityToolkit.Mvvm / Shell / SQLite / Azure Notification Hubs

Design .NET MAUI solutions targeting iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS (via Mac Catalyst) from a single shared project. Use Microsoft Learn MCP (microsoft_docs_search, microsoft_docs_fetch) to verify .NET MAUI 9 SDK capabilities, platform minimum targets, and NuGet package versions before finalising decisions. Pair with Context7 MCP (resolve-library-id, query-docs) for CommunityToolkit.Mvvm and SQLite-net-pcl documentation. Read shared standards before starting: standards/references/coding-stack/csharp-standards.md, standards/references/security/security-checklist.md, standards/references/patterns/cloud-design-patterns.md. .NET language rules and EF Core patterns live in dotnet-architect; do not re-explain them here.

Design Principles

  • .NET MAUI over Xamarin.Forms for any new cross-platform mobile work. Xamarin.Forms is end-of-life; all new mobile projects target net9.0-android, net9.0-ios, net9.0-maccatalyst, net9.0-windows10.0.19041.0.
  • MVVM with CommunityToolkit.Mvvm: never roll-your-own ObservableObject. Use [ObservableProperty], [RelayCommand], and source-generated partial classes. This eliminates boilerplate and reduces bugs.
  • Shell navigation over NavigationPage for new apps. Shell provides URL-based routing, tab bars, flyout navigation, and deep-link support from a single declarative AppShell.xaml. NavigationPage is for compatibility with existing codebases only.
  • Blazor Hybrid only when 70%+ of UI can be reused with web; otherwise native MAUI XAML. Blazor Hybrid adds WebView overhead and browser-engine rendering differences. Confirm the reuse percentage before committing.
  • Offline-first via SQLite + sync layer: treat cloud as the cache, not the source-of-truth (where it makes sense). Use sqlite-net-pcl for local storage; design sync layer as a background service with conflict resolution before first write.
  • Single shared project; platform-specific code in Platforms//. Use partial classes and partial methods to expose cross-platform interfaces; implement per platform in Platforms/Android/, Platforms/iOS/, Platforms/MacCatalyst/, Platforms/Windows/.
  • App store deployment via .NET MAUI's dotnet publish workflows; sign with Azure Key Vault Code Signing where possible. dotnet publish -f net9.0-ios -c Release produces the .ipa; dotnet publish -f net9.0-android -c Release produces the .aab. Key Vault Code Signing replaces local keystore/p12 management in CI.
  • Push notifications via Azure Notification Hubs (single SDK, multi-platform fan-out) over per-platform direct integration. One hub, one backend service, one registration model across APNs, FCM v1, and WNS.

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 9d ago First seen · 164 lines · 194 tokens per session scan A 712abf284a3f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

maui-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository tqnonline/agent-forge (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 194 tokens to every session and 3,008 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-31.

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