modern-swift

modern-swift is a skill for Claude Code from johnrogers/claude-swift-engineering. It costs 41 tokens per session (894 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for modern Swift concurrency, the system for running asynchronous work safely at the same time. It covers async/await, actors, Sendable checks, task groups, cancellation, and strict compiler checking in Swift 6.2.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when converting completion-handler code, writing concurrent operations, protecting shared mutable state, updating UI from async work, handling cancellation, or fixing Sendable errors.
Why use it?
It helps prevent data races and replaces older patterns such as completion handlers, locks, and manually managed dispatch queues. Compiler checks can reveal unsafe shared-state access before the app runs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the swift-engineering plugin — 17 skills, 3 commands, 11 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when converting completion-handler code, writing concurrent operations, protecting shared mutable state, updating UI from async work, handling cancellation, or fixing Sendable errors.

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Install

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Any agent
npx skills add johnrogers/claude-swift-engineering --skill modern-swift
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johnrogers/claude-swift-engineering

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install swift-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 3 commands, 11 agents.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 894 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00041 $0.00894
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00447
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00089

Measured 10d ago against content hash 2846d3fde397, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

modern-swift 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 10d 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/swift-engineering/skills/modern-swift/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Modern Swift (6.2+)

Swift 6.2 introduces strict compile-time concurrency checking with async/await, actors, and Sendable constraints that prevent data races at compile time instead of runtime. This is the foundation of safe concurrent Swift.

Overview

Modern Swift replaces older concurrency patterns (completion handlers, DispatchQueue, locks) with compiler-enforced safety. The core principle: if it compiles with strict concurrency enabled, it cannot have data races.

Quick Reference

Need Use NOT
Async operation async/await Completion handlers
Main thread work @MainActor DispatchQueue.main
Shared mutable state actor Locks, serial queues
Parallel tasks TaskGroup DispatchGroup
Thread safety Sendable @unchecked everywhere

Core Workflow

When writing async Swift code:

  1. Mark async functions with async, call with await
  2. Apply @MainActor to view models and UI-updating code
  3. Use actor instead of locks for shared mutable state
  4. Check Task.isCancelled or call Task.checkCancellation() in loops
  5. Enable strict concurrency in Package.swift for compile-time safety

Reference Loading Guide

ALWAYS load reference files if there is even a small chance the content may be required. It's better to have the context than to miss a pattern or make a mistake.

Reference Load When
Concurrency Essentials Writing async code, converting completion handlers, using await
Swift 6 Concurrency Using @concurrent, nonisolated(unsafe), or actor patterns
Task Groups Running multiple async operations in parallel
Task Cancellation Implementing long-running or cancellable operations
Strict Concurrency Enabling Swift 6 strict mode or fixing Sendable errors
Macros Using or understanding Swift macros like @Observable
Modern Attributes Migrating legacy code or using @preconcurrency, @backDeployed
Migration Patterns Modernizing delegate patterns or UIKit views

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

Files

What ships with it

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Changes

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  1. 10d ago First seen · 61 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 2846d3fde397

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modern-swift is a skill published in the GitHub repository johnrogers/claude-swift-engineering (228 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 894 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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