Apple Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) Design

Apple Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) Design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GktuOktay/ai-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,365 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design and development guide based on Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines for iOS, macOS, and visionOS apps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or building native-feeling Apple apps and checking choices such as text, icons, spacing, layers, and platform behavior.
Why use it?
It helps developers make interfaces that follow Apple’s conventions for clarity, hierarchy, motion, and interaction.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it when designing or building native-feeling Apple apps and checking choices such as text, icons, spacing, layers, and platform behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gktuoktay/ai-skills/apple-design
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add GktuOktay/ai-skills --skill apple-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GktuOktay/ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,365 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00076 $0.01365
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00682
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00273
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00136

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3005cddb2cbe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Apple Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) Design 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 12d 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.

.agents/skills/apple-design/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) Skill

Introduction

This skill provides comprehensive guidelines and actionable instructions for building applications that strictly adhere to Apple's Human Interface Guidelines (HIG). The focus is on clarity, deference, and depth, ensuring native-feeling experiences across iOS, macOS, and visionOS.

Core Apple Design Principles

  1. Clarity: Text is legible at every size, icons are precise and lucid, adornments are subtle and appropriate, and a sharpened focus on functionality motivates the design. Negative space, color, fonts, graphics, and interface elements subtly highlight important content and convey interactivity.
  2. Deference: Fluid motion and a crisp, beautiful interface help people understand and interact with content without competing with it. Content typically fills the entire screen, while translucency and blurring often hint at more.
  3. Depth: Distinct visual layers and realistic motion convey hierarchy, impart vitality, and facilitate understanding. Touch and discoverability heighten delight and enable access to functionality and additional content without losing context.

Platform Conventions

iOS Conventions

  • Tab Bars: Used for top-level navigation. Must contain between 2 and 5 items. Avoid hiding tab bars when navigating deep into a hierarchy unless absolutely necessary.
  • Navigation Bars: Provide drill-down navigation. Use large titles for root views, reverting to standard titles upon scrolling.
  • Modals & Sheets: Use sheets for non-blocking contextual tasks. Use full-screen modals for immersive content or complex tasks.
  • Safe Areas: Always respect safe areas to prevent content from being clipped by the notch, Dynamic Island, or home indicator.

macOS Conventions

  • Window Anatomy: Utilize toolbars, sidebars, and content areas effectively. Sidebars are typically translucent (NSVisualEffectView).
  • Menus: Rely heavily on the global menu bar for application commands. Do not duplicate all menu bar actions in the window UI.
  • Pointer Interactions: Design for hover states and precise clicking, contrasting with iOS's larger touch targets.

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. 12d ago First seen · 110 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 3005cddb2cbe

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Apple Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) Design is a skill published in the GitHub repository GktuOktay/ai-skills (2 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,365 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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