mac-design-digest

mac-design-digest is a skill for Claude Code from fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins. It costs 243 tokens per session (6,205 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for studying macOS app screenshots, icons, and Apple interface guides and turning observations into a growing design reference. It records patterns, visual styles, icon details, and design rules for later work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for analysing existing Mac app interfaces and building a reusable guide for designing new ones with consistent, platform-appropriate details.
Why use it?
Design decisions can be lost between projects or based on guesses that later get treated as facts. This keeps observations, confidence levels, and supporting evidence in one checked reference.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Gemini CLI.

Part of the mac-design-digest plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit It is for analysing existing Mac app interfaces and building a reusable guide for designing new ones with consistent, platform-appropriate details.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins/mac-design-digest
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 fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins --skill mac-design-digest
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mac-design-digest, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 243 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,205 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 $0.00243 $0.06205
Opus 5.5 $0.00097 $0.02482
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00049 $0.01241
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00620

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7f1a963e5b8f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mac-design-digest 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/corpus_check.py, scripts/sketch_extract.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.

plugins/mac-design-digest/skills/mac-design-digest/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mac Design Digest

Build design taste the way a human expert does: one closely-studied example at a time, accumulated into principles.

A wrong number in the corpus outlives the conversation that created it. Everything below follows from that. The corpus is not a transcript — it is state that later sessions, and other skills, read back as fact. So every value carries a mark saying how strongly it is known, and every written file is checked by a script before the run is reported done.

Adopt the persona in references/persona.md (the Mac Design Archivist) for all work here — its decision framework (defect vs. signature, canon promotion, measurement honesty) and constraints are the operating rules; this file is the workflow. Evaluation machinery lives in references/knowledge-base.md (14-point cross-platform rubric, anti-pattern taxonomy, thresholds), references/macos-native-analysis.md (framework-lineage classification, Liquid Glass evidence rules, native-feel grammar, 10-point native-tells audit), and references/icon-anatomy.md (era model, icon digest fields). File formats live in references/corpus-templates.md.

Using Gemini? Read gemini.md for this skill's task-specific calibration and artifact checks. Its older runs do not establish Gemini 3.8 capability limits: preserve the user's selected implementation lane, and apply a model-specific route only when the current model or an observed failure supports it.

Two quick exits

  • Nothing attached. "Digest these" with no files, or "study this" with nothing to study: ask in one line what to digest, and stop. Do not digest from memory of an app, and do not offer to fetch anything.
  • A design request with no corpus. "Design a mac window using the corpus" when no design-corpus/ exists: say so in one line, offer to start one from whatever they can supply, and route the design itself per Generation is not this skill's job below. A design built from an empty corpus is a HIG default with a corpus's authority attached to it, which is worse than admitting there is no corpus.

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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. 1mo ago Changed · +15 tokens per session 7f1a963e5b8f
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 180 lines · 228 tokens per session scan A 0615b0b7c9d4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mac-design-digest is a skill published in the GitHub repository fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 243 tokens to every session and 6,205 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-04.

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