core-data-expert

core-data-expert is a skill for Claude Code from JordanCoin/ios-skills-collection. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,082 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A reference for storing and syncing app data with Core Data, Apple’s framework for managing structured data in iOS and macOS apps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Setting up Core Data, writing fetch requests, handling saves and merge conflicts, using Swift concurrency, running batch operations, migrating stores, improving performance, and syncing through CloudKit.
Why use it?
It helps solve common data-storage problems such as failed saves, conflicting changes, slow queries, background-thread issues, and data migrations.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ios-skills plugin — 198 skills, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Setting up Core Data, writing fetch requests, handling saves and merge conflicts, using Swift concurrency, running batch operations, migrating stores, improving performance, and syncing through CloudKit.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jordancoin/ios-skills-collection/avdlee-core-data-expert
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.

Any agent
npx skills add JordanCoin/ios-skills-collection --skill avdlee-core-data-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JordanCoin/ios-skills-collection

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ios-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 198 skills, 2 hooks.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,082 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 unknown 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 $0.00058 $0.01082
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00541
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00108

Measured 12d ago against content hash 74cac8c2a868, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

core-data-expert 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.

skills/avdlee--core-data-expert/SKILL.md · 83 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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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 · 83 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 74cac8c2a868

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core-data-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository JordanCoin/ios-skills-collection (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), with no licence file. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,082 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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