ios26-api-reference

ios26-api-reference is a skill for Claude Code from markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills. It costs 120 tokens per session (3,127 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference for Apple platform APIs in iOS, macOS, and watchOS 26, including SwiftUI, SwiftData, speech, Foundation Models, widgets, and related frameworks. It organizes the reference by the frameworks and code patterns used in a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps check API usage for SwiftUI, SwiftData, speech transcription, on-device language models, AVFoundation, widgets, Live Activities, and App Intents.
Why use it?
It reduces mistakes caused by using outdated or nonexistent API names and signatures. It points the developer to the relevant reference material before implementation or debugging.

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 It helps check API usage for SwiftUI, SwiftData, speech transcription, on-device language models, AVFoundation, widgets, Live Activities, and App Intents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills/ios26-api-reference
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 ios26-api-reference
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 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,127 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 $0.00120 $0.03127
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.01563
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00625
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00313

Measured 7d ago against content hash a79ce28d9bf1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ios26-api-reference 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 7d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

platforms/claude/skills/ios26-api-reference/SKILL.md · 276 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 276 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

iOS 26 API Reference — Smart Dispatcher

Purpose: Prevent bugs from hallucinated or outdated API signatures. Architecture: 3-tier loading — only load what you need. Last verified: 2026-04-08 Context7 Integration (Optional): Live API documentation lookup for latest signatures. If unavailable, rely on the static reference below.


Step 1: Detect Frameworks

Scan import statements and code patterns. Load only the matching essentials file(s).

Import / Pattern Load Essential Deep Reference (if debugging)
import SwiftUI, any View code essentials/swiftui.md reference/swiftui-reference.md
import SwiftData, @Model, ModelContext essentials/swiftdata.md reference/swiftdata-reference.md
import FoundationModels, @Generable, LanguageModelSession essentials/foundation-models.md reference/foundation-models-reference.md
import Speech, SpeechTranscriber, SpeechAnalyzer essentials/speech.md reference/speech-reference.md
import AVFoundation, AVAudioEngine, AVAudioSession essentials/avfoundation.md reference/avfoundation-reference.md
import WidgetKit, import ActivityKit, Live Activity essentials/widgets.md reference/widgets-reference.md
import AppIntents, AppShortcutsProvider essentials/app-intents.md reference/app-intents-reference.md
import Vision, VNRequest, VNObservation essentials/vision.md reference/vision-reference.md
import VideoToolbox, VTCompressionSession essentials/videotoolbox.md reference/videotoolbox-reference.md
import Network, NWConnection, NWListener essentials/network.md reference/network-reference.md
#if os(macOS), import AppKit essentials/macos.md
#if os(watchOS), import WatchKit essentials/watchos.md
Swift 6 concurrency errors, @MainActor, Sendable essentials/swift6.md reference/swift6-reference.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 276 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. 7d ago First seen · 276 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A a79ce28d9bf1

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ios26-api-reference is a skill published in the GitHub repository markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills (5 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 3,127 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-03.

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