apple-hig-settings

apple-hig-settings is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aka-kika/akakika-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,503 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guide for Settings and Preferences in Apple-platform apps, including macOS and iOS. It explains which lasting choices belong there and how to group them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing settings for models, projects, appearance, keyboard shortcuts, notifications, privacy, data retention, accounts, folders, or app startup.
Why use it?
It helps keep permanent preferences separate from navigation, one-time commands, and details about the currently selected item.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it when designing settings for models, projects, appearance, keyboard shortcuts, notifications, privacy, data retention, accounts, folders, or app startup.

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

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.

Any agent
npx skills add aka-kika/akakika-skills --skill apple-hig-settings
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 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,503 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: 3 findings, up to high

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 →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 197
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 294
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 275
    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 $0.00047 $0.01503
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00751
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00301
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00150

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8a0c08721139, 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-settings 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.

skills/apple-hig/apple-hig-settings/SKILL.md · 307 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 307 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple HIG Settings

Use this skill when designing, reviewing, or implementing Settings/Preferences for Apple-platform apps. It covers macOS Settings, iOS Settings screens, app preferences, model configuration, shortcuts, launch at login, folders, privacy, accounts, appearance, and advanced options.

Core rule

Settings are for persistent preferences, not one-time actions or navigation.

When to use this skill

Use for:

  • Default model
  • API keys
  • Ollama URL
  • Project folder
  • Launch at Login
  • Theme / appearance
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Notification preferences
  • Privacy and local-only controls
  • Data retention
  • Export/import settings
  • Advanced debug settings

When not to use this skill

Do not put these in Settings:

  • Current selected item metadata; use Inspector
  • Main app navigation; use Sidebar
  • Current-screen actions; use Toolbar
  • One-time commands; use Command Palette or menu
  • Full dashboards
General
Models
Projects
Keyboard
Notifications
Privacy
Appearance
Advanced
About

For an agent-driven app:

General
- Launch at Login
- Show Dock icon
- Start hidden

Models
- Provider: Ollama / OpenAI / Other
- Ollama Base URL
- Default model
- Test connection

Projects
- Default projects folder
- Open folder after create
- Include skills by default

Keyboard
- Command Palette shortcut
- Quick Capture shortcut
- Toggle Inspector shortcut

Notifications
- Notify when the agent finishes
- Notify on failure
- Quiet hours

Privacy
- Local-only mode
- Allowed folders
- Clear local history

Appearance
- System / Light / Dark
- Compact mode
- Show advanced metadata

Advanced
- Debug logs
- Reset app state
- Export diagnostics

SwiftUI macOS Settings scene

@main
struct MyApp: App {
    var body: some Scene {
        MenuBarExtra("My App", systemImage: "sparkles") {
            AppMenuView()
        }

        Settings {
            SettingsView()
        }
    }
}

Settings view template

Read the full file on GitHub · 307 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. 12d ago First seen · 307 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 8a0c08721139

Subscribe to this mod's changes

apple-hig-settings is a skill published in the GitHub repository aka-kika/akakika-skills (10 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,503 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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