What is claude-code-apple-skills CLAUDE.md?

Repository instructions for a collection of Claude Code skills for Apple-platform development, such as iPhone, Mac, and iPad software. They define how each Markdown skill file must be organized and labeled.

Creating or editing Apple-development skill files, adding required YAML metadata, and keeping categories and supporting documentation organized.

They make the documentation consistent and explain the repository's structure, which is not a conventional application codebase.

How rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to rshankras/claude-code-apple-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/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 859 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 859 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00859	$0.00859
Opus 5.5	$0.00344	$0.00344
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00172	$0.00172
Haiku 4.5	$0.00086	$0.00086

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 40cd4f424e9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-code-apple-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 2mo 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.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Repository Purpose

This is a collection of Claude Code skills for Apple platform development (iOS, macOS, iPadOS). Skills are markdown files that provide domain knowledge and workflows to Claude Code instances.

This is NOT a code project - it contains only markdown documentation files organized as skills.

Architecture

Skill Structure

skills/
├── {category}/
│   ├── SKILL.md           # Entry point with YAML frontmatter
│   └── {sub-skill}/
│       ├── SKILL.md       # Sub-skill entry point
│       └── *.md           # Supporting reference files

YAML Frontmatter (Required)

Every SKILL.md must have:

---
name: skill-name
description: Brief description and when to use it
last_verified: 2026-07-16   # date content was last checked (bump when you edit)
review_by: 2027-06-22       # scheduled re-verification, ~2 weeks after next WWDC
allowed-tools: [Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, Bash]
---

Skill Categories

Category	Purpose
`ios/`	iOS development patterns
`macos/`	macOS development patterns
`product/`	Product development workflow (idea to App Store), beta testing, localization
`generators/`	Code generators producing production-ready Swift
`growth/`	Analytics, press/media, community building, indie business
`legal/`	Privacy policies, terms of service, EULAs
`core-ml/`	Core ML, Vision, NaturalLanguage, on-device ML
`apple-intelligence/`	Foundation Models, Visual Intelligence
`design/`	Liquid Glass, modern design patterns
`app-store/`	ASO, descriptions, screenshots, reviews, search ads, rejections
`monetization/`	Monetization strategy, pricing, tiers
`testing/`	TDD workflows, test infrastructure, snapshot tests
`release-review/`	Pre-release audit checklists
`shared/`	Meta-skills for creating (`skill-creator`) and auditing (`skill-auditor`) skills

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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.

2mo ago First seen · 85 lines · 859 tokens per session scan A 40cd4f424e9c

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claude-code-apple-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (864 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 859 tokens to every session, about $0.0034 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 2026-08-30.

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