watchos-design-guidelines

watchos-design-guidelines is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from chama-x/GroundRules. It costs 47 tokens per session (3,959 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of watchos-design-guidelines, MIT.

Design guidance for Apple Watch apps, including watch faces, complications, and workout features. It focuses on information people can understand quickly on a small wrist-worn screen.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing Watch screens, Digital Crown interactions, glanceable information, or workout features. It helps decide what appears first and how much text and detail to show.
Why use it?
It helps avoid interfaces that are too slow, crowded, or difficult to read at a glance. It addresses the short interactions and limited attention typical of Apple Watch use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chama-x/groundrules/watchos
Any agent
npx skills add chama-x/GroundRules --skill watchos
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chama-x/GroundRules

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 3,959 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00047 $0.03959
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01980
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00792
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00396

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4075957fb71f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

watchos-design-guidelines 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 3d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to watchos-design-guidelines — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/archive/v3/skill_platform-design-skills/skills/watchos/SKILL.md · 368 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 368 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

watchOS Design Guidelines

Apple Watch is a personal, glanceable device worn on the wrist. Interactions are measured in seconds, not minutes. Every design decision must prioritize speed of comprehension and brevity of interaction.


1. Glanceable Design (CRITICAL)

The defining constraint of watchOS. If a user cannot extract the key information within 2 seconds of raising their wrist, the design has failed.

Rules

  • W-GL-01: Primary information must be visible without scrolling. The first screen is the only guaranteed screen.
  • W-GL-02: Target interaction sessions of 5 seconds or less. Design for raise-glance-lower.
  • W-GL-03: Use large, high-contrast text. Minimum effective body text is 16pt (system font). Titles should be 18pt or larger.
  • W-GL-04: Limit text to essential content. Truncate or abbreviate aggressively. Use SF Symbols instead of text labels where meaning is unambiguous.
  • W-GL-05: Respect wrist-down time. When the wrist lowers, the app enters an inactive state. Do not assume continuous user attention.
  • W-GL-06: Prioritize a single piece of information per screen. If showing multiple data points, establish clear visual hierarchy with size, weight, and color.

Screen Dimensions Reference

Device Screen Width Screen Height Corner Radius
41mm (Series 9) 176px 215px 36px
45mm (Series 9) 198px 242px 39px
42mm (Series 10) 180px 220px 37px
46mm (Series 10) 205px 251px 40px
49mm (Ultra 2) 205px 251px 40px

Anti-Patterns

  • Walls of text requiring scroll to understand context
  • Small, dense data tables
  • Requiring multiple taps before showing useful information
  • Replicating an iPhone screen layout on Watch

2. Digital Crown (HIGH)

The Digital Crown is the primary physical input for scrolling and precise value selection. It provides haptic feedback and should feel purposeful.

Rules

  • W-DC-01: Use the Digital Crown as the primary scroll mechanism for vertical content. Do not rely solely on swipe gestures for scrolling.
  • W-DC-02: For value pickers (time, quantity, sliders), bind the Crown to precise adjustments with haptic detents at each discrete value.
  • W-DC-03: Do not override or conflict with system Crown behaviors. The system uses the Crown for volume control during media playback, scrolling in system UI, and Time Travel in complications.
  • W-DC-04: Provide visual feedback synchronized with Crown rotation. The UI must respond frame-by-frame to Crown input with no perceptible lag.
  • W-DC-05: Update on each Crown increment. Values, selection, and highlight states should move with each detent. Do not debounce Crown input until the gesture ends.

Read the full file on GitHub · 368 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. 3d ago First seen · 368 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 4075957fb71f

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watchos-design-guidelines is a skill published in the GitHub repository chama-x/GroundRules (5 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 3,959 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to watchos-design-guidelines, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.