Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add aka-kika/akakika-skills --skill apple-hig-empty-statesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aka-kika/akakika-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
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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 | $0.00050 | $0.01341 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00025 | $0.00671 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00268 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00134 |
Grade A, and why
apple-hig-empty-states 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 12d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 261 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Apple HIG Empty States
Turn blank screens into useful empty, first-run, no-result, offline, and error states that explain what is missing and what to do next. Reach for it whenever a view has no data, no selection, no results, no connection, or a failed load.
Purpose
Use this skill when designing or implementing empty, first-run, no-result, offline, error, or waiting states in Apple-platform apps.
Use for:
- No projects
- No tasks
- No active runs
- No skills
- No notes
- No reports
- No selected item
- No search results
- First launch
- Offline/local model not running
- Permission missing
- Failed load
Core rule
An empty state must explain what is missing, why it matters, and what to do next.
A blank screen is not an empty state.
Empty state formula
Icon
Title
Short explanation
Primary action
Optional secondary action
Example:
No Active Runs
The agent is not working on anything right now.
Start a task or open the queue.
[New Task] [Open Queue]
When to use this skill
Use this skill when a view has no data, no selection, no permissions, no connection, no results, or the user is seeing the app for the first time.
When not to use this skill
Do not use this skill to hide real errors. If something failed, show an error state with recovery.
Types of empty states
1. First-run empty state
For new users.
Welcome to your app
Create your first project, connect an agent, or add a skill to begin.
[Create Project] [Add Skill]
2. No-content state
For normal empty data.
No Projects
Create a project to organize tasks, prompts, and skills.
[New Project]
3. No-selection state
For inspector/detail areas.
No Item Selected
Select a task, project, run, or skill to inspect its details.
4. No-search-results state
For failed search.
No Results
Try a project, skill, prompt, file, or command name.
[Clear Search]
5. Offline / unavailable state
For local models or services.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 261 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 948a7f3357c8
apple-hig-empty-states 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 1,341 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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