swiftui-performance

swiftui-performance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Livsy90/iOS-Performance-Agent-Skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,335 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review and refactoring workflow for improving SwiftUI performance. SwiftUI is Apple's framework for building app interfaces, and performance work here focuses on limiting unnecessary screen updates and rendering effort.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review or fix SwiftUI screens, lists, rows, layouts, animations, drawing, and asynchronous view lifecycle code when the interface updates or renders inefficiently.
Why use it?
It explains which data changes cause which views to update and checks whether those updates do more work than necessary. This helps investigate scrolling hitches, slow rows, layout cost, drawing cost, and lifecycle-related work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the iOS-Performance-Agent-Skills plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review or fix SwiftUI screens, lists, rows, layouts, animations, drawing, and asynchronous view lifecycle code when the interface updates or renders inefficiently.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/livsy90/ios-performance-agent-skills/swiftui-performance
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Livsy90/iOS-Performance-Agent-Skills --skill swiftui-performance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Livsy90/iOS-Performance-Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install iOS-Performance-Agent-Skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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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 1,335 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 $0.00076 $0.01335
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00668
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00267
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00134

Measured 11d ago against content hash 6ea3651240cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

swiftui-performance 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 11d 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.

swiftui-performance/SKILL.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SwiftUI Performance

Purpose

Use this skill to review and refactor SwiftUI code with a performance-first mental model focused on change locality.

SwiftUI performance work should explain which change invalidates which part of the UI, why that work matters, and how to keep updates local.

Scope

Use this skill for:

  • SwiftUI screen, list, row, layout, drawing, animation, and lifecycle reviews
  • targeted refactors that reduce unnecessary updates or rendering work
  • profiling plans only when they validate a SwiftUI performance hypothesis

Do not use this skill for:

  • UIKit-only performance problems
  • app launch performance unless the issue is inside SwiftUI root view or scene construction
  • networking, backend latency, database performance, or caching unless they affect SwiftUI updates
  • generic Instruments walkthroughs without a SwiftUI code path
  • broad architecture rewrites without a concrete SwiftUI performance risk

Core Model

Answer three questions first:

  1. What changed?
  2. Which views depend on that change?
  3. How much UI work happens because of it?

Then inspect:

  • Identity: does SwiftUI preserve the same logical view across updates?
  • Lifetime: is state owned by the smallest stable component that needs it?
  • Dependencies: does each view read only the data it needs to render?
  • Rendering: is body cheap, predictable, and free from heavy transformation work?
  • Lifecycle: is async work tied to .task, .onAppear, or explicit actions rather than started from body?

A SwiftUI view is a value description of UI. Do not treat it as a long-lived UIKit-style object.

Review Workflow

Inspect the smallest relevant code path before suggesting broad changes.

Check in this order:

  1. Stable and intentional identity.
  2. Expensive work in body.
  3. Broad state or model reads.
  4. State ownership and lifetime.
  5. List, row, and pagination structure.
  6. Closure-heavy inputs, custom bindings, and unnecessary type erasure.
  7. Layout, drawing, and animation cost in repeated content.
  8. Async lifecycle, cancellation, and main-actor work.
  9. Profiling or debug probes when confirmation is useful.

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 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. 11d ago First seen · 158 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 6ea3651240cc

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swiftui-performance is a skill published in the GitHub repository Livsy90/iOS-Performance-Agent-Skills (113 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,335 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 2026-08-30.

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