apple-design

apple-design is a cursor rule for Cursor from GktuOktay/ai-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,359 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of Apple Human Interface Guidelines for designing and building apps for iOS, macOS, and visionOS. It covers principles such as clear layouts, restrained decoration, visual layers, and platform conventions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing screens, controls, typography, icons, motion, and interactions for Apple platforms.
Why use it?
It helps an app feel familiar and consistent with Apple’s interface expectations.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Use it when designing screens, controls, typography, icons, motion, and interactions for Apple platforms.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 1,359 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.
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Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00679
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00272
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00136

Measured 6d ago against content hash 20594444cc7a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apple-design 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 6d 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.

agents/cursor/rules/apple-design.mdc · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) Skill

Introduction

This skill provides comprehensive guidelines and actionable instructions for building applications that strictly adhere to Apple's Human Interface Guidelines (HIG). The focus is on clarity, deference, and depth, ensuring native-feeling experiences across iOS, macOS, and visionOS.

Core Apple Design Principles

  1. Clarity: Text is legible at every size, icons are precise and lucid, adornments are subtle and appropriate, and a sharpened focus on functionality motivates the design. Negative space, color, fonts, graphics, and interface elements subtly highlight important content and convey interactivity.
  2. Deference: Fluid motion and a crisp, beautiful interface help people understand and interact with content without competing with it. Content typically fills the entire screen, while translucency and blurring often hint at more.
  3. Depth: Distinct visual layers and realistic motion convey hierarchy, impart vitality, and facilitate understanding. Touch and discoverability heighten delight and enable access to functionality and additional content without losing context.

Platform Conventions

iOS Conventions

  • Tab Bars: Used for top-level navigation. Must contain between 2 and 5 items. Avoid hiding tab bars when navigating deep into a hierarchy unless absolutely necessary.
  • Navigation Bars: Provide drill-down navigation. Use large titles for root views, reverting to standard titles upon scrolling.
  • Modals & Sheets: Use sheets for non-blocking contextual tasks. Use full-screen modals for immersive content or complex tasks.
  • Safe Areas: Always respect safe areas to prevent content from being clipped by the notch, Dynamic Island, or home indicator.

macOS Conventions

  • Window Anatomy: Utilize toolbars, sidebars, and content areas effectively. Sidebars are typically translucent (NSVisualEffectView).
  • Menus: Rely heavily on the global menu bar for application commands. Do not duplicate all menu bar actions in the window UI.
  • Pointer Interactions: Design for hover states and precise clicking, contrasting with iOS's larger touch targets.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 lines

Changes

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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. 6d ago First seen · 109 lines · 1,359 tokens per session scan A 20594444cc7a

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apple-design is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository GktuOktay/ai-skills (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,359 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.