Agent skill
avalonia-threading-and-dispatcher
Design or review Avalonia reactive flows, dispatcher usage, timers, async UI coordination, and thread-affinity boundaries. Use for `Dispatcher.UIThread`, background work handoff, timer selection, reactive pipeline fixes, or UI-thread correctness bugs.
Install this agent skill to your Project
npx add-skill https://github.com/wieslawsoltes/development-plugin-for-avalonia/tree/main/skills/avalonia-threading-and-dispatcher
SKILL.md
Avalonia Threading and Dispatcher
Start with:
../../references/03-reactive-threading.md../../references/47-dispatcher-priority-operations-and-timers.md
Load these when quality hardening matters:
../../references/08-performance-checklist.md../../references/27-diagnostics-profiling-and-devtools.md
Workflow
- Identify which state is allowed off-thread and which UI mutations must stay on the UI thread.
- Pick the right dispatch primitive: immediate post, prioritized operation, or timer.
- Keep reactive or async chains explicit about scheduler and dispatch boundaries.
- Verify cancellation, teardown, and shutdown behavior for long-lived subscriptions or timers.
Rules
- Never hide UI-thread assumptions in helper layers.
- Prefer explicit dispatcher boundaries over accidental thread capture.
- Use timers and background loops sparingly and always with disposal or cancellation.
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