macos-programmer

macos-programmer is a skill for Claude Code from Pyroxin/opinionated-claude-skills. It costs 72 tokens per session (10,512 once invoked), scanned A, original, EPL-2.0.

A guide for programming on macOS, including choosing between SwiftUI and AppKit and understanding how macOS differs from iOS. SwiftUI and AppKit are Apple frameworks for building app interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning macOS apps, choosing an interface framework, handling platform differences, or working with macOS window management.
Why use it?
It provides decision guidance for developers who need to build or adapt software for macOS, especially those coming from iOS development.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the opinionated-apple-development plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when planning macOS apps, choosing an interface framework, handling platform differences, or working with macOS window management.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pyroxin/opinionated-claude-skills/macos-programmer
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 Pyroxin/opinionated-claude-skills --skill macos-programmer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Pyroxin/opinionated-claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install opinionated-apple-development, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,512 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 unknown 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 $0.00072 $0.10512
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.05256
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.02102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.01051

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6ea76a301e2b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

macos-programmer 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 2d 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.

opinionated-apple-development/skills/macos-programmer/SKILL.md · 833 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed EPL-2.0

The repository is licensed EPL-2.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2d ago Changed · +90 lines 6ea76a301e2b
  2. 10d ago First seen · 743 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 9eb184a071a1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

macos-programmer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Pyroxin/opinionated-claude-skills (9 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed EPL-2.0. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 10,512 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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