apple-hig-command-palette

apple-hig-command-palette is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aka-kika/akakika-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (2,298 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design and review guide for a command palette in an Apple-platform app. A command palette is a keyboard-first search panel for finding commands, views, files, projects, or other actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for ⌘K search, quick actions, jump-to navigation, task launching, skill or prompt running, project switching, and power-user workflows.
Why use it?
It helps add quick global control without replacing the app’s visible sidebar, toolbar, or item details.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for ⌘K search, quick actions, jump-to navigation, task launching, skill or prompt running, project switching, and power-user workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aka-kika/akakika-skills/apple-hig-command-palette
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aka-kika/akakika-skills --skill apple-hig-command-palette
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aka-kika/akakika-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,298 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 58
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00050 $0.02298
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01149
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00460
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00230

Measured 2d ago against content hash d38aba2ce91b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apple-hig-command-palette 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 2d 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.

skills/apple-hig/apple-hig-command-palette/SKILL.md · 487 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 487 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple HIG Command Palette

Design and review a native-feeling ⌘K command palette: a fast, keyboard-first layer on top of the app for global search, quick actions, and jump-to navigation — not a replacement for the sidebar. Reach for this for keyboard-first workflows, global search, quick actions, jump-to navigation, task launching, skill running, project switching, prompt execution, and power-user workflows.

Apple does not treat “command palette” as a single standard control like NavigationSplitView or .toolbar, so this skill adapts Apple-native patterns: menu commands, keyboard shortcuts, Spotlight-style search, SF Symbols, accessibility, and calm macOS interaction design.

Core rule

Sidebar = visible navigation
Toolbar = current-screen actions
Inspector = selected-item details
Command Palette = fast global control

The command palette is not a replacement for the sidebar. It is a fast layer on top of the app.

A good command palette answers:

What do you want to do?
Where do you want to go?
What do you want to find?

When to use a command palette

Use a command palette when the app has many commands, views, files, projects, prompts, skills, or workflows that power users need to access quickly.

Good use cases:

  • Jump to project
  • Open file
  • Run skill
  • Create task
  • Start an agent run
  • Search prompts
  • Switch workspace
  • Open settings
  • Generate report
  • Open recent note
  • Run saved automation
  • Toggle inspector
  • Change theme
  • Copy current path

Avoid using the command palette for:

  • Replacing all visible navigation
  • Hiding essential beginner flows
  • Complex forms
  • Long onboarding
  • Dangerous destructive commands without confirmation
  • Everything in the app with no ranking or grouping

Apple-style principles

1. Make it keyboard-first

Default shortcut:

⌘K = Open command palette

Optional alternatives:

⌘P = Quick open file/project
⇧⌘P = Full command list

A safe default:

⌘K = Command Palette

Read the full file on GitHub · 487 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago Changed · -473 lines d38aba2ce91b
  2. 12d ago First seen · 960 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A fbbf3cc16936

Subscribe to this mod's changes

apple-hig-command-palette is a skill published in the GitHub repository aka-kika/akakika-skills (10 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 2,298 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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