axiom-hig

axiom-hig is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ComeOnOliver/skillshub. It costs 42 tokens per session (3,188 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quick reference for Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines, which describe common patterns for clear, consistent, and accessible app interfaces. It provides decision frameworks for colours, typography, backgrounds, and platform versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when making or defending a design choice, checking HIG compliance, or selecting an appropriate interface pattern for an Apple app.
Why use it?
It gives fast answers to everyday UI questions and helps review designs against Apple’s conventions without reading the full guidelines.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when making or defending a design choice, checking HIG compliance, or selecting an appropriate interface pattern for an Apple app.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/comeonoliver/skillshub/axiom-hig
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ComeOnOliver/skillshub --skill axiom-hig
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ComeOnOliver/skillshub

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,188 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.
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 $0.00042 $0.03188
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.01594
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00638
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00319

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3a078dce4fe3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

axiom-hig 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 9d 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/CharlesWiltgen/Axiom/axiom-hig/SKILL.md · 449 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 449 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple Human Interface Guidelines — Quick Reference

When to Use This Skill

Use when:

  • Making visual design decisions (colors, backgrounds, typography)
  • Reviewing UI for HIG compliance
  • Answering "Should I use a dark background?"
  • Choosing between design options
  • Defending design decisions to stakeholders
  • Quick lookups for common design questions
Related Skills
  • Use axiom-hig-ref for comprehensive details and code examples
  • Use axiom-liquid-glass for iOS 26 material design implementation and version-conditional design (supporting both pre-Liquid Glass and Liquid Glass in the same app)
  • Use axiom-liquid-glass-ref for iOS 26 app-wide adoption guide with backward compatibility strategy
  • Use axiom-accessibility-diag for accessibility troubleshooting
Version-Conditional Design

When supporting both iOS 25 (pre-Liquid Glass) and iOS 26+, see axiom-liquid-glass for the adoption strategy — it covers when to use #available(iOS 26, *), how to degrade gracefully, and which system components adopt Liquid Glass automatically vs which need explicit opt-in.


Quick Decision Trees

Background Color Decision

Is your app media-focused (photos, videos, music)?
├─ Yes → Consider permanent dark appearance
│        WHY: "Lets UI recede, helps people focus on media" (Apple HIG)
│        EXAMPLES: Apple Music, Photos, Clock apps use dark
│        CODE: .preferredColorScheme(.dark) on root view
│
└─ No → Use system backgrounds (respect user preference)
         CODE: systemBackground (adapts to light/dark automatically)
         GROUPED: systemGroupedBackground for iOS Settings-style lists

Apple's guidance: "In rare cases, consider using only a dark appearance in the interface. For example, it can make sense for an app that enables immersive media viewing to use a permanently dark appearance."

Color Selection Decision

Do you need a specific color value?
├─ No → Use semantic colors
│        label, secondaryLabel, tertiaryLabel, quaternaryLabel
│        systemBackground, secondarySystemBackground, tertiarySystemBackground
│        WHY: Automatically adapts to light/dark/high contrast
│
└─ Yes → Create Color Set in asset catalog
         1. Open Assets.xcassets
         2. Add Color Set
         3. Configure variants:
            ├─ Light mode color
            ├─ Dark mode color
            └─ High contrast (optional but recommended)

Read the full file on GitHub · 449 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. 9d ago First seen · 449 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 3a078dce4fe3

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axiom-hig is a skill published in the GitHub repository ComeOnOliver/skillshub (63 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 3,188 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 2026-09-03.