tvos-app-experience-workflow

tvos-app-experience-workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gaelic-ghost/socket. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,590 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for designing Apple TV apps around remote or controller input, visible focus movement, large-screen layouts, and accessibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build or review tvOS browsing screens, focus behavior, text entry, Large Text support, hardware availability checks, or migrations from TVMLKit.
Why use it?
It addresses interaction problems that are specific to tvOS, such as navigating without a touchscreen and keeping focused content visible.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the apple-dev-skills plugin — 65 skills, 2 MCP servers shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install apple-dev-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 65 skills, 2 MCP servers.

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README.md
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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,590 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 $0.00053 $0.01590
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00795
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00318
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00159

Measured yesterday against content hash 1ddcbc0dc1e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tvos-app-experience-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 yesterday.

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/tvos-app-experience-workflow/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

tvOS App Experience Workflow

Purpose

Guide the Apple TV-specific decisions that ordinary SwiftUI app architecture does not own: indirect remote/controller input, visible focus movement, large-screen layout, Large Text, hardware and SDK availability, and migration away from TVMLKit. Keep SwiftUI as the primary UI path and use UIKit focus APIs only for a demonstrated geometry or lifecycle constraint.

When To Use

  • Use this skill for a tvOS catalog, utility, education, fitness, game-adjacent, or media-browsing app whose main question is remote-first interaction or focus behavior.
  • Use this skill for SwiftUI content shelves, lockups, hover effects, focusSection(), focused-item clipping, focus restoration, or large-screen layout decisions.
  • Use this skill for UIFocusGuide, UIFocusEnvironment, preferred focus environments, focus-update diagnostics, or a UIKit/SwiftUI focus boundary.
  • Use this skill for tvOS 27 Large Text/Dynamic Type adaptation, remote versus controller input, text-entry burden, Apple TV hardware/GPU capability gates, and beta-SDK availability questions.
  • Use this skill to inventory a TVMLKit app and plan a migration to SwiftUI or UIKit; TVMLKit has been deprecated since tvOS 18.
  • Recommend tvos-media-playback-workflow when playback UI, remote transport commands, Now Playing state, AVKit customization, HLS, or a custom player is the primary concern.
  • Recommend swiftui-app-architecture-workflow when the tvOS constraints are understood and the remaining question is ordinary SwiftUI scene, state, or component ownership.
  • Recommend apple-ui-accessibility-workflow when the main question is the accessibility tree or semantics beyond tvOS focus and Large Text.

Single-Path Workflow

  1. Classify the request:
    • SwiftUI-first content layout
    • focus routing or restoration
    • UIKit focus escape hatch
    • Large Text or accessibility adaptation
    • capability or beta-SDK gate
    • TVMLKit migration inventory
  2. Apply the Apple docs gate:
    • use explore-apple-swift-docs to read current Apple documentation first
    • state the documented focus, input, availability, or deprecation behavior relied on before proposing a change
    • mark tvOS 27 claims as beta-specific with the checked SDK/build date until Apple ships the GM
  3. Choose the smallest native UI surface:
    • SwiftUI Button, focusSection(), lockup, hover-effect, and scroll behavior for normal catalog layouts
    • normal focus geometry with enough room for scale and elevation
    • UIKit UIFocusGuide or preferred focus environments only when native geometry cannot produce the intended movement
  4. Check the platform boundary:
    • Siri Remote, controller, voice, or companion-device input
    • focus, select, Menu/Back, and restoration behavior
    • text-entry alternative and remote friction
    • Apple TV generation, GPU family, simulator/device-only requirement, and unavailable framework
    • Large Text, RTL, VoiceOver order, and visual focus states
  5. Return one recommendation with:
    • resolved request class
    • documented Apple behavior relied on
    • selected SwiftUI or UIKit surface
    • platform/beta availability result
    • validation matrix and one honest handoff

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. yesterday First seen · 157 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 1ddcbc0dc1e6

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tvos-app-experience-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaelic-ghost/socket (7 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,590 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 2026-09-03.

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