hig-platforms

hig-platforms is a skill for Claude Code from raintree-technology/hig-doctor. It costs 168 tokens per session (1,180 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Design guidance for apps on Apple platforms, including iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. It explains how each device’s screen, controls, and interaction style affect the design.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing platform-appropriate navigation, layouts, and interactions for a single-platform or multi-platform Apple app.
Why use it?
It helps prevent using the same layout and controls everywhere when users expect each Apple platform to work differently.

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 126repo +4 6d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 168 tokens original MIT

Good fit Choosing platform-appropriate navigation, layouts, and interactions for a single-platform or multi-platform Apple app.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/raintree-technology/hig-doctor/hig-platforms
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-platforms
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.

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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Per session 168 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,180 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 28 Apr 2026
  • Snyk pass 28 Apr 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 $0.00168 $0.01180
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.00590
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00236
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00118

Measured 11d ago against content hash a2681ef51856, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hig-platforms 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/hig-platforms/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple HIG: Platform Design

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

Key Principles

  1. Each platform has a distinct identity. Do not port designs between platforms. Respect each platform's conventions, interaction models, and user expectations.

  2. iOS: touch-first. Direct manipulation on a handheld screen. Optimize for one-handed use. Navigation uses tab bars and push/pop stacks.

  3. iPadOS: expanded canvas. Support Split View, Slide Over, and Stage Manager. Use sidebars and multi-column layouts. Support pointer and keyboard alongside touch.

  4. macOS: pointer and keyboard. Dense information display is acceptable. Use menu bars, toolbars, and keyboard shortcuts extensively. Windows are resizable with precise control.

  5. tvOS: remote and focus. Viewed from a distance. Design for the Siri Remote with focus-based navigation. Large text, simple layouts, linear navigation.

  6. visionOS: spatial interaction. 3D environment using windows, volumes, and spaces. Eye tracking for targeting, indirect gestures for interaction. Respect ergonomic comfort zones.

  7. watchOS: glanceable and brief. Information consumable at a glance. Brief interactions. Digital Crown, haptics, and complications for timely content.

  8. Games: own paradigm. Free to define in-game interaction models, but still respect platform conventions for system interactions (notifications, accessibility, controllers).

Reference Index

Reference Topic Key content
designing-for-ios.md iOS Touch, tab bars, navigation stacks, gestures, screen sizes, safe areas
designing-for-ipados.md iPadOS Multitasking, sidebars, pointer, keyboard, Apple Pencil, Stage Manager
designing-for-macos.md macOS Menu bars, toolbars, window management, keyboard shortcuts, dense layouts, Dock
designing-for-tvos.md tvOS Focus engine, Siri Remote, lean-back experience, content-forward, parallax
designing-for-visionos.md visionOS Spatial computing, windows/volumes/spaces, eye tracking, hand gestures, depth
designing-for-watchos.md watchOS Glanceable UI, Digital Crown, complications, notifications, haptics
designing-for-games.md Games Controllers, immersive experiences, platform-specific conventions, accessibility

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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 · 85 lines · 168 tokens per session scan A a2681ef51856

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hig-platforms is a skill published in the GitHub repository raintree-technology/hig-doctor (126 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 168 tokens to every session and 1,180 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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