apple-hig-toolbars

apple-hig-toolbars is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aka-kika/akakika-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,629 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for designing toolbars in Apple-platform apps, including macOS, iPadOS, and iOS interfaces. It explains how to place current-screen actions, search, filters, sharing, overflow menus, and keyboard shortcuts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or review SwiftUI toolbars and navigation bars, choose a primary action, protect destructive actions, and decide when an action belongs in a menu or context menu.
Why use it?
It helps keep navigation and actions separate so users can find the right command for the screen they are viewing.

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 to plan or review SwiftUI toolbars and navigation bars, choose a primary action, protect destructive actions, and decide when an action belongs in a menu or context menu.

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

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aka-kika/akakika-skills --skill apple-hig-toolbars
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 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,629 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00043 $0.01629
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00814
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00326
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00163

Measured 12d ago against content hash dc62e288ee76, 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-toolbars 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-toolbars/SKILL.md · 320 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 320 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple HIG Toolbars

Use this skill when designing, reviewing, or implementing Apple-platform toolbars. It covers macOS window toolbars, SwiftUI .toolbar, iPadOS toolbars, iOS navigation bar actions, current-screen actions, search, filters, sort controls, export/share actions, inspector toggles, and command palette buttons.

Core rule

Sidebar = navigation
Toolbar = actions for the current screen
Command palette = fast access to many commands
Context menu = secondary item-specific actions

A good toolbar answers:

What can I do on this screen right now?

Apple-style principles

1. Toolbars serve the current view

Toolbar actions should change based on the selected screen.

Examples:

Projects screen:
- New Project
- Search
- Sort
- Filter

Active Runs screen:
- Stop
- Retry
- Clear Finished
- Search

Skills screen:
- New Skill
- Import
- Validate
- Search

Bad pattern:

Every screen always shows every action.

2. Use familiar placement

Leading:
- Sidebar toggle
- Back navigation

Center:
- Title
- Search
- Segmented controls
- View switchers

Trailing:
- Primary action
- Add button
- Share/export
- Inspector toggle
- More menu

3. One primary action per screen

Every screen should have one obvious main action.

Examples:

Projects → New Project
Skills → New Skill
Prompts → New Prompt
Reports → Export
Active Runs → Clear Finished or Stop All

If there are three primary buttons, none are primary.

4. Use menus for overflow

Put less frequent actions into a More menu.

Menu {
    Button("Sort") {}
    Button("Filter") {}
    Divider()
    Button("Export") {}
} label: {
    Label("More", systemImage: "ellipsis.circle")
}

5. Protect destructive actions

Do not place destructive actions as prominent toolbar buttons unless they are core to the screen and safely reversible.

Better:

More menu → Delete Finished Runs… → confirmation dialog → undo support

Read the full file on GitHub · 320 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 · 320 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A dc62e288ee76

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apple-hig-toolbars is a skill published in the GitHub repository aka-kika/akakika-skills (10 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,629 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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