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Win Dev Skills — Git skill for Claude Code

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Agent plugins for building Windows apps with GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and more.

How to install Win Dev Skills

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open microsoft/win-dev-skills and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Win Dev Skills does

Agent plugins for building Windows apps with GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and more.

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README

Agents and skills for Windows app development

Agent plugins for building Windows apps with GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and more. Add this repo as a marketplace once, then install the plugins you need.

Plugin What it's for Maintained in Hosts
winappcli Packaging, signing, and distributing Windows apps with WinApp CLI: MSIX, certificates, package identity, appxmanifest, Windows SDK setup, and the Microsoft Store. Works with Electron, .NET, C++, Rust, Flutter, and Tauri. microsoft/winappCli Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, OpenCode
winui Native Windows apps with WinUI 3 and the Windows App SDK: scaffold, design, build, run, test, package, and ship. microsoft/winappCli Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, OpenCode

On Codex, OpenClaw, and OpenCode, skills load; agents aren't available.

Plugins are either hosted here under `plugins//` or maintained in another repo and pinned to a release; both are first-class. `winappcli` and `winui` are maintained in [microsoft/winappCli](https://github.com/microsoft/winappCli); file their issues and PRs there.

Install

You need **Git** (`winget install Git.Git`) and one of the hosts below. Replace `` with a name from the table.

[!NOTE] Install each plugin from **one** catalog. microsoft/winappCli's own catalog (`@winappcli`) and awesome-copilot ship the same plugins; installing a second copy gives you duplicate skills.

GitHub Copilot CLI

copilot plugin marketplace add microsoft/win-dev-skills
copilot plugin install @win-dev-skills
Or let Copilot install winui and its prerequisites

Paste this prompt into a Copilot CLI session:

Install the Copilot CLI plugin "wi