winui-design

UI Planning

Before picking controls, search the catalogue. This skill ships winui-search.exe alongside this SKILL.md. It indexes 100+ WinUI Gallery controls, every Windows Community Toolkit scenario, and a curated set of platform integration patterns (JumpList, Share, file pickers, drag-drop). Use it to ground every control choice in a real shipping sample before writing any XAML — this is the difference between guessing property names and copying canonical code.

.\winui-search.exe search "<feature 1>" "<feature 2>" ...   # batch one focused query per feature
.\winui-search.exe get <id 1> <id 2> ...                     # batch up to 3 IDs — full XAML + C# + pitfall notes
.\winui-search.exe list                                       # browse all patterns (heavy — prefer search)
.\winui-search.exe update                                     # force refresh now

Workflow: in one search call, list every feature you need for the current page (one focused query per feature, not a bag of keywords) → from each shortlist pick the best ID → grab full code with get (batch up to 3 IDs per call) → then write XAML using those samples as reference. Do NOT interleave searching with coding — front-load all lookups, then code. BM25 rewards focused per-query phrasing, so keep each query about one control or pattern.