macos-view-refactor

macos-view-refactor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from robinebers/openusage. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,205 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for reorganising macOS SwiftUI screens and windows into smaller, clearly separated parts. SwiftUI is Apple's framework for building app interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Splitting large views, structuring app windows and settings, managing scene state, and limiting AppKit code to places where macOS desktop behaviour requires it.
Why use it?
It helps prevent one large view or file from handling every screen, setting, model, and system integration at once.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/robinebers/openusage/macos-view-refactor
Any agent
npx skills add robinebers/openusage --skill macos-view-refactor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robinebers/openusage

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,205 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 $0.00035 $0.01205
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00602
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00241
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00120

Measured 4d ago against content hash 16147d415484, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

macos-view-refactor 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/macos-view-refactor/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

View Refactor

Overview

Refactor macOS views toward small, explicit, stable scene and view types. Default to native SwiftUI for layout, selection, commands, and settings. Reach for AppKit only at the narrow edges where desktop behavior truly requires it.

Core Guidelines

1) Model scenes explicitly

  • Break the app into meaningful scene roots: main window, settings, utility windows, inspectors, or menu bar extras.
  • Do not let one giant root view silently own every desktop surface.

2) Keep a predictable file shape

  • Follow this ordering unless the file already has a stronger local convention:
  • Environment
  • private/public let
  • @State / other stored properties
  • computed var (non-view)
  • init
  • body
  • computed view builders / other view helpers
  • helper / async functions

2b) Split files by responsibility

  • For non-trivial apps, do not keep the full app, all views, models, stores, networking clients, process clients, and helpers in one Swift file.
  • Accept a single Swift file only for tiny throwaway examples or snippets: roughly under 50 lines, one screen, no persistence, no networking/process client, and no reusable models.
  • Use App/<AppName>App.swift for the @main app and AppDelegate only.
  • Keep Views/ContentView.swift focused on root layout and composition; move feature UI into files such as Views/SidebarView.swift, Views/DetailView.swift, and Views/ComposerView.swift.
  • Move value types and selection enums into Models/*.swift, stores into Stores/*.swift, app-server/network/process clients into Services/*.swift, and small formatters/resolvers/extensions into Support/*.swift.
  • Keep files small and named after the primary type they contain.

3) Prefer dedicated subview types over many computed some View fragments

  • Extract meaningful desktop sections like sidebar rows, detail panels, inspectors, or toolbar content into focused subviews.
  • Keep computed some View helpers small and rare.
  • Pass explicit data, bindings, and actions into subviews instead of handing down the whole scene model.

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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 · 110 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 16147d415484

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macos-view-refactor is a skill published in the GitHub repository robinebers/openusage (3,975 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,205 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.