dotnet-winforms-basics

dotnet-winforms-basics is a skill for Claude Code from wshaddix/dotnet-skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (3,909 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to building Windows Forms desktop applications on .NET 8, including high-DPI display support, experimental dark mode, dependency injection, and modernization practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or modernizing a .NET 8 WinForms application, configuring dependency injection, or improving display scaling.
Why use it?
It helps older or new WinForms applications work better on modern screens and use a more maintainable application structure.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the dotnet-skills plugin — 167 skills, 12 commands, 16 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when creating or modernizing a .NET 8 WinForms application, configuring dependency injection, or improving display scaling.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wshaddix/dotnet-skills/dotnet-winforms-basics
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 wshaddix/dotnet-skills --skill dotnet-winforms-basics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wshaddix/dotnet-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dotnet-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 167 skills, 12 commands, 16 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/wshaddix/dotnet-skills/dotnet-winforms-basics"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wshaddix/dotnet-skills/dotnet-winforms-basics.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,909 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 unknown 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 $0.00031 $0.03909
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01954
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00782
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00391

Measured 5d ago against content hash c6026250f49b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dotnet-winforms-basics 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 5d 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/dotnet-winforms-basics/SKILL.md · 430 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 5d ago First seen · 430 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A c6026250f49b

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dotnet-winforms-basics is a skill published in the GitHub repository wshaddix/dotnet-skills (79 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 3,909 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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