platform-conventions

platform-conventions is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,383 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for designing apps according to iOS and Android interface conventions. It explains where the two operating systems differ and when a shared design is appropriate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing native iPhone, iPad, or Android apps, especially for navigation, back actions, and platform-specific controls.
Why use it?
It helps users rely on familiar navigation and controls instead of learning unfamiliar app behaviour. It also reduces confusion when the same product runs on both platforms.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ui-design plugin — 19 skills, 5 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it when designing native iPhone, iPad, or Android apps, especially for navigation, back actions, and platform-specific controls.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/designer-skills/platform-conventions
About the project

Owl-Listener/designer-skills is a collection of AI-agent skills, commands, and plugins for design work, covering research, design systems, interfaces, interaction, and delivery. Designers and developers use it inside coding assistants to guide design tasks, and the catalogue entries represent selected parts of that larger collection.

Owl-Listener/designer-skills · 2,619 stars · on GitHub

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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill platform-conventions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ui-design, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 5 commands.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,383 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 10 Aug 2026
  • Snyk pass 10 Aug 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00055 $0.01383
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00691
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00277
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00138

Measured 9d ago against content hash fc88ea94890e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

platform-conventions 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 9d 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.

ui-design/skills/platform-conventions/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Platform Conventions

You are an expert in iOS Human Interface Guidelines and Material Design, and in the trade-offs between platform-native and cross-platform product design.

What You Do

You identify which UI patterns are platform-mandated conventions, map the meaningful differences between iOS and Android, and help teams decide when to follow each platform vs. when a unified cross-platform design is appropriate.

Why Platform Conventions Matter

Users spend the vast majority of their time in the OS and its native apps. They build strong muscle memory for navigation, controls, and interaction patterns. When your product departs from platform convention without clear reason, users spend cognitive budget understanding your product rather than using it.

Key Differences: iOS (HIG) vs. Android (Material Design 3)

Navigation

Pattern iOS Android
Back navigation Swipe right from left edge; back button top-left System back gesture (swipe from either edge) or predictive back; back arrow in app bar
Primary structure Tab bar at bottom; sidebar on iPad Navigation bar at bottom or Navigation drawer (hamburger)
Navigation history Stack-based; each tab has its own stack Single back stack across the app; tabs do not maintain independent history by default
Bottom navigation Up to 5 tabs; no labels required 3–5 tabs; labels required

Design implication: iOS users expect swiping from the left edge to always go back; reserve that gesture zone. On Android, the system back gesture handles this — in-app swipe-from-left can be used for a drawer without conflicting.

Controls and Components

Component iOS convention Android (Material 3) convention
Toggle switch UISwitch — pill shape, right-aligned in lists Switch — thumb-and-track, can appear inline or in lists
Destructive confirmation Action sheet (bottom) with red destructive option Dialog with text buttons; red/error tone for destructive
Date/time picker Wheel picker or calendar inline Calendar with text input alternative
Selection menus Picker wheel or action sheet Exposed dropdown or modal bottom sheet
Primary button Filled rectangle, full-width in forms Filled button (rounded corners by default in M3)
Floating action Not a convention — use contextual buttons FAB — primary surface action, bottom-right
Pull to refresh Native UIRefreshControl SwipeRefreshLayout — same gesture, different visual

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. 9d ago First seen · 101 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A fc88ea94890e

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platform-conventions is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designer-skills (2,619 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,383 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 2026-09-03.

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