apple-dev-skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

apple-dev-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code, Codex from markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills. It costs 2,292 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of apple-dev-skills AGENTS.md, MIT.

Repository instructions for maintaining a collection of Apple development skills across coding-agent platforms. Source files are validated and then used to generate platform-specific bundles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing Apple development skills, agents, commands, MCP configuration, validation, builds, or local installation.
Why use it?
It prevents edits from being made to generated files and keeps source, generated outputs, metadata, and platform rules aligned.

Instructions file for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Codex and Claude Code: reads $CODEX_HOME, but also the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions .claude-plugin; mentions CLAUDE.md.

This is markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on apple-dev-skills itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything apple-dev-skills configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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What it costs to keep this loaded

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Opus 5.5 $0.00917 $0.00917
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00458 $0.00458
Haiku 4.5 $0.00229 $0.00229

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Security

Grade A, and why

apple-dev-skills CLAUDE.md 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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to apple-dev-skills AGENTS.md — 15 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

CLAUDE.md · 235 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 235 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple Dev Skills — Agent Guide

This is the standalone Apple development skill repository. It is not part of aether-agent-plugins.


Quick Reference

Task Command
Validate source node scripts/validate.js
Build platforms node scripts/build.js
Install locally ./install.sh --platform claude --local
Install globally ./install.sh --platform claude

Repository Rules

  1. Edit source, not generated platform bundles — skill/agent/command changes begin in src/. Never hand-edit platforms/, .claude-plugin/, or .cursor-plugin/; they are generated by scripts/build.js.
  2. Run validation before committing — node scripts/validate.js must pass.
  3. Regenerate after source edits — After changing any src/ file, run node scripts/build.js and commit source + generated outputs together.
  4. Keep skills self-contained — Cross-reference other skills by name, not by installation-specific file path.
  5. YAML frontmatter is required — Every SKILL.md, agent, and command must have valid frontmatter.
  6. Stay machine-agnostic — Never commit absolute clone paths or credentials. src/mcp/*/mcp.json must keep placeholders/env-var references; real paths/keys belong in machine-local client config.
  7. Product repositories own their overlays. Generic methodology belongs here; consumer repos commit only their product/repository-specific binding layer.

Project-local consumer convention

For a product repository that commits its own Agent Skills, use one provider-neutral source:

AGENTS.md                       # canonical always-on operating contract
CLAUDE.md -> AGENTS.md          # compatibility alias when symlinks are supported
GEMINI.md -> AGENTS.md          # compatibility alias when symlinks are supported
.agents/skills/                 # canonical committed repo-owned Agent Skills
.claude/skills/<name>           # compatibility symlink or tiny Claude-only adapter
apple-overlays.json             # optional root descriptor for generated Apple overlays

Read the full file on GitHub · 235 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. 1mo ago First seen · 235 lines · 2,292 tokens per session scan A 1e10ea59f866

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apple-dev-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,292 tokens to every session, about $0.0092 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to apple-dev-skills AGENTS.md, differing in 15 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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