apple-liquid-glass

apple-liquid-glass is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DanielJamesTronca/apple-liquid-glass-skill. It costs 105 tokens per session (1,180 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide and implementation aid for Apple's Liquid Glass user-interface design across SwiftUI, UIKit, AppKit, widgets, CarPlay, and app icons. Liquid Glass is Apple's translucent interface style and system component family.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design, build, review, or migrate Liquid Glass interfaces in Apple-platform applications.
Why use it?
It helps decide where the style belongs and how to apply it while considering platform versions and accessibility.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the apple-liquid-glass plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to design, build, review, or migrate Liquid Glass interfaces in Apple-platform applications.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danieljamestronca/apple-liquid-glass-skill/apple-liquid-glass
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add DanielJamesTronca/apple-liquid-glass-skill --skill apple-liquid-glass
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DanielJamesTronca/apple-liquid-glass-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install apple-liquid-glass, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,180 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 $0.00105 $0.01180
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00590
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00236
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00118

Measured 11d ago against content hash 2bb16695ed3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apple-liquid-glass 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/audit_liquid_glass.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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-liquid-glass/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple Liquid Glass

Treat Liquid Glass as the functional layer for controls and navigation above content, not as decoration. Prefer system components and subtraction before writing custom glass.

Workflow

1. Inspect the target

Determine the active SDK, deployment targets, frameworks, and whether the app can be built or rendered before recommending code.

xcodebuild -version
python3 scripts/audit_liquid_glass.py <project-path> --json
rg --no-filename -o --glob '*.swift' '^import (SwiftUI|UIKit|AppKit|WidgetKit|CarPlay)$' \
  <project-path> | sort | uniq -c

Honor DEVELOPER_DIR or another project-selected toolchain. Do not add OS 26 availability branches when every deployment target is 26 or newer. When the project builds with an Xcode 27 beta SDK, load references/migration-26-to-27.md and verify beta declarations against the active SDK or current Apple documentation.

2. Decide whether glass belongs

Stop at the first disqualifying answer:

  1. Is this functional UI rather than content?
  2. Is there no system component that already provides the behavior?
  3. Does the element float above content that can move or change beneath it?
  4. Is it interactive, or otherwise essential functional chrome?
  5. Is glass clearer than a plain or standard-material treatment?

If any answer is no, do not add custom glass. Explain why and offer a concrete system or standard-material alternative. For ambiguous design requests, load references/design-decision-tree.md.

3. Route only to relevant guidance

Target or task Load
SwiftUI code references/swiftui.md
UIKit code references/uikit.md
AppKit code references/appkit.md
Mixed-framework code Each framework file actually used
Bars, navigation, sidebars, or search references/navigation-bars-search.md
Sheets, menus, alerts, or popovers references/presentations.md
WidgetKit references/widgets.md
App icons, symbols, Icon Composer, or CarPlay icons references/icons-and-symbols.md
Custom-control accessibility references/accessibility.md
Hitches, profiling, snapshots, or visual testing references/performance-and-testing.md
OS 26 to OS 27 beta migration references/migration-26-to-27.md
Code review or “looks wrong” diagnosis references/common-failures.md
Citation, conflict, or availability question references/sources.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. 11d ago First seen · 121 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 2bb16695ed3a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

apple-liquid-glass is a skill published in the GitHub repository DanielJamesTronca/apple-liquid-glass-skill (3 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 1,180 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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