app-intents-workflow

A guide for exposing an app’s actions and data to Apple system features such as Siri, Spotlight, Shortcuts, widgets, and controls.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design App Intents, searchable app content, app shortcuts, widgets, controls, Live Activities, and actions started from supported hardware.
Why use it?
It helps developers define a small, clear action that works outside the app instead of building a separate parallel app structure.

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/gaelic-ghost/socket/app-intents-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add gaelic-ghost/socket --skill app-intents-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gaelic-ghost/socket

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,050 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00059 $0.01050
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00525
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00210
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00105

Measured 3d ago against content hash e932b37a63bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-intents-workflow 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.

plugins/apple-dev-skills/skills/app-intents-workflow/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

App Intents Workflow

Purpose

Expose the smallest useful action and content surface outside an app without turning system integration into a second app architecture. Apple documents App Intents as the bridge that makes app actions and data discoverable in system experiences; select real user-recognizable verbs and entities before adding an intent type.

When To Use

  • Use for AppIntent, AppEntity, AppEnum, AppShortcutsProvider, entity queries, result snippets, Spotlight indexing, widgets, controls, Live Activities, Siri, and Action button or Apple Pencil actions.
  • Use when an app action needs an explicit deep-link or scene-opening handoff after system invocation.
  • Hand off Xcode target, extension, build, simulator, and runtime inspection work to xcode-build-run-workflow; hand test plans and UI automation to xcode-testing-workflow.

Single-Path Workflow

  1. Apply the Apple docs gate through explore-apple-swift-docs. Confirm the framework, platform availability, and target system surface before changing code.
  2. Define one user-recognizable verb and the minimum data it needs. Prefer an existing app domain type; do not invent a parallel intent-only repository, store, or DTO layer.
  3. Classify the surface: direct action, parameterized action, entity lookup, App Shortcut, Spotlight result, widget/control action, Live Activity action, or hardware interaction.
  4. Read references/intent-entity-and-shortcut-shapes.md for intent, entity, query, shortcut, and result patterns. Read references/system-surfaces-and-validation.md for indexing, extension boundaries, privacy, and validation.
  5. Implement the narrow intent and make perform() call the existing domain action or explicit app handoff. Keep parameter confirmation, failures, and result output descriptive and user-facing.
  6. Add AppEntity only when people need to select, search, or inspect app-owned content. Give entity display representations stable identifiers and use the appropriate query shape; do not expose private, transient, or unverifiable data.
  7. Add App Shortcuts only for actions people plausibly invoke repeatedly. Use short, natural phrases and real parameter defaults rather than advertising every internal operation.
  8. For widgets, controls, Live Activities, and Spotlight, validate the owning extension and system-surface contract rather than assuming the main app target alone is enough.
  9. Validate discovery, parameter resolution, cancellation/failure behavior, app handoff, accessibility, and privacy on the intended platform. Record system-surface limitations separately from app behavior.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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 · 67 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A e932b37a63bc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

app-intents-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaelic-ghost/socket (7 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,050 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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