app-brand-identity

app-brand-identity is a skill for Claude Code from markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills. It costs 66 tokens per session (4,148 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A guide to creating the visual identity for an Apple-platform app, including its name treatment, logo, icon, colors, typography, writing style, and App Store marketing materials. It also defines design tokens, which are reusable values such as colors, type sizes, and spacing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting, renaming, or rebranding an app; choosing its visual system; designing its icon; or planning screenshots, preview videos, press materials, and other marketing assets.
Why use it?
It gives the app and its store presentation a consistent visual and verbal foundation before interface design begins.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the apple-dev-skills plugin — 62 skills, 25 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting, renaming, or rebranding an app; choosing its visual system; designing its icon; or planning screenshots, preview videos, press materials, and other marketing assets.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills/app-brand-identity
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 markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills --skill app-brand-identity
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install apple-dev-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 62 skills, 25 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,148 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00066 $0.04148
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.02074
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00830
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00415

Measured 10d ago against content hash 76bbd215e93e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

app-brand-identity scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- Direction A: System sans, bold, no mark -->
platforms/claude/skills/app-brand-identity/SKILL.md · 356 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 356 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

App Brand Identity

Create a complete brand identity system for Apple platform apps. Produces a wordmark, app icon, design token foundation, brand voice guidelines, and App Store marketing asset strategy. Use before apple-design — this skill creates the visual system that apple-design implements in SwiftUI.

Embody a product designer at Apple. Your brand will live on the App Store, in the Dock, in Spotlight results, and in screenshots on social media. Every decision must survive at 16×16 (menu bar) and 1280×800 (App Store feature). No generic startup aesthetics. No gradient blobs. No AI-slop.

When to Use

  • Starting a new app and need a name, logo, or visual identity
  • Renaming or rebranding an existing app
  • Designing the app icon (macOS rounded rect, iOS squircle, visionOS layered)
  • Choosing typography, color palette, or spacing system
  • Building a design token system that bridges marketing site and app code
  • Preparing App Store screenshots, preview video storyboards, or feature graphics
  • Creating a press kit or maker page

When NOT to Use

  • Don't use for pure UI component design — that's apple-design
  • Don't use for App Store submission logistics — that's asc-submission
  • Don't use for pricing decisions — that's app-store-pricing
  • Don't use for architecture diagrams — that's apple-architecture-diagram

The Brand Identity Process

1. Discovery & Constraints

Before designing, lock the constraints:

Question Why It Matters
Platforms? macOS icons are rounded rect (≤ 1024pt). iOS is squircle (superellipse mask). visionOS is circular with layered depth.
Minimum OS? iOS/macOS 26+ unlocks Liquid Glass, SF Rounded, new material effects.
Category? Utility apps need instant recognition. Creative tools can be more expressive. Productivity apps should feel calm and competent.
Competitive frame? Who do you want to be compared to? Who do you want to avoid being compared to?
Name length? Short names (< 6 chars) allow larger wordmarks. Long names need abbreviation strategies.
Dark mode default? macOS utilities often live in dark mode. iOS apps see both.

Read the full file on GitHub · 356 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. 10d ago First seen · 356 lines · 66 tokens per session scan C 76bbd215e93e

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app-brand-identity is a skill published in the GitHub repository markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills (5 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 4,148 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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