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hig-components-menus

hig-components-menus is a skill for Claude Code from raintree-technology/hig-doctor. It costs 156 tokens per session (979 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Design guidance for menus and buttons in Apple apps. It explains where commands belong and how buttons, toolbars, context menus, and Mac menu bars should behave on different platforms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Designing app buttons, toolbars, pop-up and pull-down controls, context menus, and macOS menu bars.
Why use it?
It helps users find actions in familiar places and prevents important commands from being hidden or presented inconsistently.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the apple-hig-skills plugin — 14 skills shipped together

not rated 151repo +3 4d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 156 tokens original MIT

Good fit Designing app buttons, toolbars, pop-up and pull-down controls, context menus, and macOS menu bars.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/raintree-technology/hig-doctor/hig-components-menus
View source ↗ raintree-technology/hig-doctor apple.raintree.technology
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 raintree-technology/hig-doctor --skill hig-components-menus
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raintree-technology/hig-doctor

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install apple-hig-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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Per session 156 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 979 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 14 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 14 Sept 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 $0.00156 $0.00979
Opus 5.5 $0.00062 $0.00392
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00098

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 8587f6eb574b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hig-components-menus 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 2mo 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/hig-components-menus/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple HIG: Menus and Buttons

Check for .claude/apple-design-context.md before asking questions. Use existing context and only ask for information not already covered.

Key Principles

  1. Menus should be contextual and predictable. Standard items in standard locations. Follow platform conventions for ordering and grouping.

  2. Use standard button styles. System-defined styles communicate affordance and maintain visual consistency. Prefer them over custom designs.

  3. Toolbars for frequent actions. Most commonly used commands in the toolbar. Rarely used actions belong in menus.

  4. Menu bar is the primary command interface on macOS. Every command reachable from the menu bar. Toolbars and context menus supplement, not replace.

  5. Context menus for secondary actions. Right-click or long-press, relevant to the item under the pointer. Never put a command only in a context menu.

  6. Pop-up buttons for mutually exclusive choices. Select exactly one option from a set.

  7. Pull-down buttons for action lists. No current selection; they offer a set of commands.

  8. Action buttons consolidate related actions behind a single icon in toolbars or title bars.

  9. Disclosure controls for progressive disclosure. Show or hide additional content.

  10. Dock menus: short and focused on the most useful actions when the app is running.

Reference Index

Reference Topic Key content
menus.md General menu design Item ordering, grouping, shortcuts
context-menus.md Context menus Right-click, long press, secondary actions
dock-menus.md Dock menus macOS app-level actions, running state
edit-menus.md Edit menus Undo, copy, paste, standard items
the-menu-bar.md Menu bar macOS primary command interface, structure
toolbars.md Toolbars Frequent actions, customization, placement
buttons.md Buttons System styles, sizing, affordance
action-button.md Action button Grouped secondary actions, toolbar use
pop-up-buttons.md Pop-up buttons Mutually exclusive choice selection
pull-down-buttons.md Pull-down buttons Action lists, no current selection
disclosure-controls.md Disclosure controls Progressive disclosure, show/hide

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 lines

Files

What ships with it

11 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. 2mo ago First seen · 82 lines · 156 tokens per session scan A 8587f6eb574b

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hig-components-menus is a skill published in the GitHub repository raintree-technology/hig-doctor (151 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 156 tokens to every session and 979 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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