ios-dev

ios-dev is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Prisma-Labs-Dev/apple-skills. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,698 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A starting guide for iOS development using SwiftUI or UIKit, Apple's two main frameworks for building iPhone and iPad interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building, reviewing, refactoring, or debugging iOS apps, including work that combines SwiftUI and UIKit.
Why use it?
It helps choose the relevant Apple guidance for a task while keeping interface code, business logic, app state, and platform boundaries clear.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,698 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00051 $0.01698
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00849
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00340
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00170

Measured 4d ago against content hash 83898bc10e30, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ios-dev 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.

skills/ios-dev/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

iOS Development

Start here. This skill coordinates the Apple skills collection — it tells you which skill to use and when, so you get opinionated guidance and full API references together.

Operating Rules

  • SwiftUI and UIKit are both first-class — pick whichever fits the task. UIKit is a valid choice whenever it gives more control or flexibility; when bridging the two, watch state sync, lifecycle, and animation/environment boundaries.
  • Do not enforce specific architectures (MVVM, VIPER, MV, TCA, etc.) — encourage separating business logic from views without mandating how
  • Hold a high bar for UI craft: apps should feel current-generation — fluid, design-forward, alive. Sweat the tiny details. Custom components, novel interactions, and custom Metal shaders are all in-bounds when they serve the experience; system defaults are a floor, not a ceiling.
  • Do not prescribe how that craft is delivered — no house style, no "Apple-approved" gatekeeping, no aesthetic checklists. Design direction is your own judgment call, made per app. The hig and ios-liquid-glass skills document what the system provides; they are references, not style mandates. When the task is designing a screen or making it look good, there is no doc to route to — design from your own taste; grep references only when you need API mechanics or a factual minimum (e.g. hit-target sizes).
  • Present performance optimizations as suggestions backed by reasoning, not blanket requirements
  • When you need exact API details, grep the framework reference skills — they contain full Apple documentation

Task Workflows

Review existing code

  1. Read the code and identify which topics apply
  2. Run the Correctness Checklist below — violations are bugs
  3. Use the Topic Router to load the relevant guide for each topic
  4. For API correctness, grep the matching framework reference skill

Improve existing code

  1. Run the correctness checklist first
  2. For performance issues: use guide-swiftui-performance-audit
  3. For navigation, state, or pattern questions: use guide-swiftui-ui-patterns
  4. For API details: grep the matching framework reference skill

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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. 4d ago First seen · 114 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 83898bc10e30

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ios-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository Prisma-Labs-Dev/apple-skills (323 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,698 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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