update-swiftui-apis

update-swiftui-apis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from patrickserrano/lacquer. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,262 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of update-swiftui-apis, MIT.

A maintenance workflow for checking Apple's SwiftUI documentation for APIs that Apple has deprecated and finding their modern replacements. SwiftUI is Apple's framework for building app interfaces across its platforms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan for SwiftUI API changes and update the related expert reference file with newer alternatives.
Why use it?
It helps keep SwiftUI guidance current after new iOS or Xcode releases and prevents developers from relying on APIs that Apple no longer recommends. It requires access to Apple's documentation through the Sosumi MCP.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to scan for SwiftUI API changes and update the related expert reference file with newer alternatives.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/patrickserrano/lacquer/update-swiftui-apis
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 patrickserrano/lacquer --skill update-swiftui-apis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/patrickserrano/lacquer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,262 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 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00077 $0.01262
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00631
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00126

Measured 4d ago against content hash c6735c25a83f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update-swiftui-apis 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 4d 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

This is a copy

92% identical to update-swiftui-apis — 17 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

profiles/ios/skills/update-swiftui-apis/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Update SwiftUI APIs

Systematically scan Apple's developer documentation via the Sosumi MCP, identify deprecated SwiftUI APIs and their modern replacements, and update ../swiftui-expert-skill/references/latest-apis.md (sibling skill directory, relative to this skill's own directory).

Prerequisites

  • Sosumi MCP must be enabled and available (provides searchAppleDocumentation, fetchAppleDocumentation, fetchAppleVideoTranscript, fetchExternalDocumentation). Verify before starting by calling searchAppleDocumentation with a trivial query (e.g. SwiftUI); if the tool is unavailable or errors, Sosumi is not usable.
  • If Sosumi is unavailable: stop and tell the user it's required. As a fallback, manually browse https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui and relevant WWDC session pages for deprecation notices, citing them the same way Sosumi output would be cited, then continue from Step 4.
  • Write access to this repository (or a fork)

Workflow

1. Understand current coverage

Read ../swiftui-expert-skill/references/latest-apis.md to understand:

  • Which deprecated-to-modern transitions are already documented
  • The version segments in use (iOS 15+, 16+, 17+, 18+, 26+)
  • The Quick Lookup Table at the bottom

2. Load the scan manifest

Read references/scan-manifest.md (relative to this skill). It contains the categorized list of API areas, documentation paths, search queries, and WWDC video paths to scan.

3. Scan Apple documentation

For each category in the manifest:

  1. Call searchAppleDocumentation with the listed queries to discover relevant pages.
  2. Call fetchAppleDocumentation with specific documentation paths to get full API details.
  3. Look for deprecation notices, "Deprecated" labels, and "Use ... instead" guidance.
  4. Note the iOS version where the modern replacement became available.
  5. Optionally call fetchAppleVideoTranscript for WWDC sessions that announce API changes.

Batch related searches together for efficiency. Focus on finding new deprecations not yet in latest-apis.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 4d ago First seen · 107 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A c6735c25a83f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

update-swiftui-apis is a skill published in the GitHub repository patrickserrano/lacquer (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,262 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to update-swiftui-apis, differing in 17 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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