winui-design skillA
winui-design is agent-read markdown (skill) from microsoft/win-dev-skills: Use when designing, reviewing, or fixing WinUI 3: sample and control discovery with winapp find-ui, layout planning, control choice, Fluent Design alignment, Light/Dark/High Contrast theming, typography, spacing, brushes, accessibility, and XAML data-binding design. Load before authoring new XAML, reviewing UI PRs, migrating desktop UI to WinUI, or choosing between WinUI controls/patterns. Also use when asked to search WinUI samples, find a WinUI Gallery or Community Toolkit example, or find a c.
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
## Search samples before writing XAML WinApp CLI 0.6+ provides grounded control and sample discovery through `winapp find-ui`. **Front-load lookups, then code**: ```powershell winapp find-ui "<focused feature>" # compact matches + scenario IDs winapp find-ui --id <scenario-id> # full XAML/C# + prerequisite notes winapp find-ui --id <id-1> --id <id-2> --json # batch, structured output winapp find-ui --list # browse all default-source scenarios winapp find-ui "<feature>" --refresh # force a corpus refresh ``` Default search covers the WinUI Gallery, Windows Community Toolkit, and curated core patterns. Reactor's C#-only/MVU samples are opt-in with `--source reactor`; use them only for Reactor projects. The Gallery/Toolkit/Reactor corpus is fetched and cached by WinApp CLI, while core patterns work offline. ## App-shape anchors Pick the closest shipping app silhouette before laying out a page: | App type | Anchor controls | Reference apps | |----------|-----------------|----------------| …
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How to install
mdr add microsoft/win-dev-skills/winui-design@git:20260826.26aa303mdr add microsoft/win-dev-skills/winui-design@sha256:dea0912e3e58bc88Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260826.26aa303 latest | 2026-08-26 | 26aa303 | 11,644 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260825.f12cc57 | 2026-08-25 | f12cc57 | 11,608 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (11644 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
microsoft/win-dev-skills · 448 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_llec3nbbbpu2zkj4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoft/win-dev-skills/winui-design GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dea0912e3e58bc88f31322b68a14c51e7a43985d26f5ece18844fa5edde9c948
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