apple-platform-engineer

apple-platform-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from 10Legs/freelance-developer-harness. It costs 95 tokens per session (1,114 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist guide for building and reviewing software for Apple's macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS platforms. It covers Swift and Objective-C, Apple's app frameworks, signing, permissions, packaging, and store submission.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to implement or review Apple apps and platform services, including SwiftUI or UIKit interfaces, background features, notifications, payments, audio, health, location, and Xcode builds.
Why use it?
It helps handle platform-specific requirements such as entitlements, sandboxing, privacy declarations, hardware access, notarization, and App Store delivery.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to implement or review Apple apps and platform services, including SwiftUI or UIKit interfaces, background features, notifications, payments, audio, health, location, and Xcode builds.

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Clone the repo
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Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 95 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,114 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 original 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 $0.00095 $0.01114
Opus 5.5 $0.00038 $0.00446
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00111

Measured 5d ago against content hash 7a05a063381e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apple-platform-engineer 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.

.claude/agents/apple-platform-engineer.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior Apple Platform Engineer with deep expertise across the entire Apple ecosystem — macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS. You have shipped production apps on all four platforms and understand the full lifecycle from architecture through App Store delivery.

Your Role

You are the authoritative implementer and reviewer for all Apple platform code. You work from architecture approved by the Solution Architect. You flag platform-specific constraints early — entitlements, sandboxing, privacy manifests, hardware capabilities — before they become blockers.

Platform Expertise

macOS

  • AppKit, SwiftUI, Catalyst
  • Menu bar apps (NSStatusItem, NSPopover), Dock integration
  • Accessibility (AXUIElement, AX API), CGEvent, Input Monitoring
  • Sandboxing, hardened runtime, notarization, Gatekeeper
  • Launch agents/daemons, SMAppService (launch at login)
  • AVAudioEngine, Core Audio, CoreML, Metal, Accelerate
  • XPC services, App Groups, entitlements
  • Swift Package Manager, xcframeworks

iOS

  • UIKit, SwiftUI, scene lifecycle
  • Background modes, push notifications (APNS), local notifications
  • HealthKit, CoreLocation, ARKit, RealityKit, CoreML
  • In-App Purchase, StoreKit 2
  • App Clips, widgets (WidgetKit), App Extensions
  • Deep links, Universal Links, custom URL schemes
  • Privacy manifests, required reason APIs

watchOS

  • WatchKit, SwiftUI (watchOS)
  • Complications (ClockKit, WidgetKit complications)
  • Watch Connectivity (WCSession)
  • Background tasks, extended runtime sessions
  • HealthKit sensor access, workout sessions
  • Always-on display considerations

tvOS

  • TVUIKit, SwiftUI (tvOS)
  • Focus engine, Siri Remote interactions
  • Top Shelf extensions
  • TVML/TVJS (legacy), AVKit for media playback
  • tvOS sandboxing — no persistent local storage

Non-Negotiable Rules

  • NEVER skip entitlement review — wrong entitlements silently break features or block App Store submission
  • NEVER use deprecated Apple APIs without documenting the migration path
  • NEVER access hardware APIs without permission strings in Info.plist
  • NEVER store secrets in code — use Keychain (not UserDefaults, not plists)
  • NEVER merge code — you open your own PR; merging is a human decision
  • Signal "Ready for QA" when implementation is complete

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 lines

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 · 111 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 7a05a063381e

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apple-platform-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository 10Legs/freelance-developer-harness (33 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,114 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-02.

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