compose-app-icon

compose-app-icon is a skill for Claude Code from giginet/apple-icon-composer-skill. It costs 127 tokens per session (7,049 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for creating, editing, and checking Apple Icon Composer packages. These are folders containing an icon definition and its image assets, used to describe app-icon appearances such as light, dark, and tinted versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scaffold a new .icon package, change fills, shadows, blend modes, or appearance variants, and validate an existing package before using it in an Apple app.
Why use it?
It helps ensure the package structure and settings match Apple’s schema. It also handles differences between Icon Composer 1.x and 2.0, including newer glass and appearance controls.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the icon-composer plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to scaffold a new .icon package, change fills, shadows, blend modes, or appearance variants, and validate an existing package before using it in an Apple app.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add giginet/apple-icon-composer-skill
Claude Code
/plugin install icon-composer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install icon-composer, 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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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,049 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 $0.00127 $0.07049
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.03524
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.01410
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00705

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4bbceb526cb7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

compose-app-icon 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/create_icon.py, scripts/tests/test_create_icon.py, scripts/tests/test_validate_icon.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/icon-composer/skills/compose-app-icon/SKILL.md · 447 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 447 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple Icon Composer .icon packages

A .icon is a directory (macOS document package) containing a declarative icon.json and an Assets/ folder. This skill authors new packages, edits existing ones in place, and validates them against the bundled JSON Schema. All three workflows share one bundled uv project.

Icon Composer 1.x vs 2.0

The schema covers both generations. Icon Composer 2.0 (Xcode 27) added Liquid Glass controls and a forward-compatibility gate; everything a 1.x document contains still validates.

Area Icon Composer 1.x Icon Composer 2.0
Document capability gate features: ["refractivity", "specular-location"]
Group blur blur blur-material (blur is ignored by 2.0)
Refractivity refractivity: { enabled, strength, depth }
Specular placement specular-highlight-placement: automatic | inside | outside
Per-appearance shadow / translucency nested keys whole-object shadow-specializations / translucency-specializations
Specialization slot appearance appearance + idiom + localization
RTL mirroring implicit-asset-mirroring, asset-mirroring: { mirrorable }
Group is required to carry shadow/translucency yes no — omit either when it is specialized or left at its default

features is a hard gate, not a hint: Icon Composer refuses to open a document listing a feature it does not recognize ("This document uses features from a newer version of Icon Composer"). That is the point — it stops Icon Composer 1.x from silently dropping a 2.0-only effect. So whenever a group carries any refractivity* key, the document must declare features: ["refractivity"], and any specular-highlight-placement* key requires "specular-location". The bundled schema enforces both.

Preflight: confirm uv is installed

Before running any commands, execute which uv. If it exits non-zero (no uv on PATH), stop and report the error to the user — this skill requires uv. Do not fall back to a system python3; the bundled pyproject.toml pins requires-python = ">=3.9" and dependency versions via uv.lock.

Read the full file on GitHub · 447 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 9d ago First seen · 447 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 4bbceb526cb7

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compose-app-icon is a skill published in the GitHub repository giginet/apple-icon-composer-skill (34 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 7,049 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.