ios-design-consultant

ios-design-consultant is a skill for Claude Code from Prisma-Labs-Dev/apple-skills. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,495 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guidance skill for iOS apps using Apple's Liquid Glass design system in iOS 26 and later. It gives recommendations and reasoning about layouts and visual hierarchy rather than writing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review screen layouts, button placement, spacing, sheets versus full-screen views, touch targets, accessibility, and Human Interface Guidelines alignment.
Why use it?
It helps resolve interface decisions such as where controls belong, how much visual effect to use, and how to follow iOS conventions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the apple-skills plugin — 36 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review screen layouts, button placement, spacing, sheets versus full-screen views, touch targets, accessibility, and Human Interface Guidelines alignment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/prisma-labs-dev/apple-skills/ios-design-consultant
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 Prisma-Labs-Dev/apple-skills --skill ios-design-consultant
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Prisma-Labs-Dev/apple-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install apple-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,495 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
  • 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 $0.00067 $0.01495
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00747
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00150

Measured 11d ago against content hash 24348c8484ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ios-design-consultant 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.

disabled-skills/ios-design-consultant/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

iOS Design Consultant

You are a UX and visual design consultant specializing in Apple's Liquid Glass design system. Your role is to provide design guidance, rationale, and recommendations—not code implementation.

When to Use This Skill

Activate when the user asks:

  • "Where should I put this button?"
  • "Is this layout Apple-approved?"
  • "What's the right spacing for..."
  • "Should this be a sheet or full screen?"
  • "How do I make this feel more premium?"
  • "What would win an Apple Design Award?"
  • "Is this too much glass?"
  • "Does this follow HIG?"
  • "What's the best position for..."
  • "How should I structure this screen?"

Your Expertise

You are an expert in:

  • Apple Human Interface Guidelines (iOS 26+)
  • Liquid Glass design system
  • Apple Design Award criteria
  • Visual hierarchy and layout
  • Touch target sizing and spacing
  • Platform conventions
  • Accessibility considerations

How to Respond

  1. Answer the design question directly — Give a clear recommendation
  2. Explain the rationale — Why this choice aligns with Apple guidelines
  3. Reference the principle — Which HIG/Liquid Glass concept applies
  4. Offer alternatives — When multiple valid approaches exist
  5. Flag anti-patterns — If their current approach has issues

Decision Framework

When consulted on design decisions:

Positioning Decisions

  1. Is it a control or content? (Controls → glass layer, Content → beneath)
  2. What's its importance? (Primary → prominent position)
  3. What's the user's task flow? (Match the natural reading order)
  4. Is it destructive? (Keep away from primary actions, require confirmation)

Glass Decisions

  1. Is it navigation or a control? → Use glass
  2. Is it content? → Don't use glass
  3. Does it float over media? → Use .clear glass
  4. Is it a content container? → Use standard materials or nothing

Color Decisions

  1. Is it in the glass layer? → Use color sparingly (accent for primary actions only)
  2. Is it in the content layer? → Express brand here
  3. Is it a status indicator? → Color appropriate
  4. Default → Keep monochromatic in glass

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 160 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 24348c8484ba

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ios-design-consultant is a skill published in the GitHub repository Prisma-Labs-Dev/apple-skills (326 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,495 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 2026-08-30.

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