app-clip

app-clip is a skill for Claude Code from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (2,092 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An Apple App Clip setup for a small, focused part of an iPhone app that people can open without installing the full app. It supports entry points such as QR codes, NFC tags, Safari, Messages, and an App Clip Card.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create an App Clip target, handle links that open the clip, route users to the right experience, confirm a location, and guide them toward the full app.
Why use it?
It lets people reach a specific app experience quickly, then prompts them to upgrade to the complete app when appropriate.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the apple-skills plugin — 147 skills shipped together , and of apple-skills

Good fit Use it to create an App Clip target, handle links that open the clip, route users to the right experience, confirm a location, and guide them toward the full app.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/app-clip
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 rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills --skill app-clip
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install apple-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 147 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,092 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
  • 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 $0.00045 $0.02092
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01046
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00418
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00209

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1c0c6484cef6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-clip 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 10d 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/generators/app-clip/SKILL.md · 256 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 256 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

App Clip Generator

Generate production App Clip infrastructure — a lightweight version of your app invoked from NFC tags, QR codes, Safari banners, or Messages. Includes App Clip target setup, invocation URL handling, experience routing, location confirmation, and full app upgrade flow.

When This Skill Activates

Use this skill when the user:

  • Asks to "add an app clip" or "create an app clip target"
  • Mentions "instant app" or "lightweight app experience"
  • Wants to set up "App Clip Card" metadata
  • Mentions "NFC tag" invocation or "QR code" launching an app
  • Asks about "app clip invocation" or "invocation URL handling"
  • Wants a "lightweight app experience" for a physical location

Pre-Generation Checks

1. Project Context Detection

  • Check deployment target (iOS 14+ required for App Clips, iOS 16+ recommended)
  • Check Swift version (requires Swift 5.9+)
  • Check for @Observable support (iOS 17+ / macOS 14+)
  • Identify Xcode project structure (.xcodeproj or .xcworkspace)

2. Conflict Detection

Search for existing App Clip targets:

Glob: **/*AppClip*/*.swift, **/*Clip*/*.swift
Grep: "NSUserActivityTypeBrowsingWeb" or "AppClipExperience" or "SKOverlay"

If existing App Clip target found:

  • Ask if user wants to replace or extend it
  • If extending, identify which components are missing

3. Project Structure

Identify where the main app target lives and where to place the App Clip target alongside it.

Configuration Questions

Ask user via AskUserQuestion:

  1. Invocation method?

    • NFC tag only
    • QR code only
    • Safari banner (Smart App Banner)
    • Messages
    • All of the above — recommended
  2. Primary experience?

    • Order food (restaurant/cafe)
    • Reserve (booking/reservation)
    • Check in (event/location)
    • Preview content (article/product)
  3. Include location confirmation?

    • Yes — verifies user is physically at the expected location (recommended for physical-world invocations)
    • No — skip location verification

Read the full file on GitHub · 256 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 10d ago First seen · 256 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 1c0c6484cef6

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app-clip is a skill published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (713 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 2,092 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.