apple-intelligence

apple-intelligence is a skill for Claude Code from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills. It costs 34 tokens per session (778 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A collection of guidance for adding Apple Intelligence features to apps, including on-device language models, visual recognition, and system integrations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building AI features for Apple platforms, such as on-device text generation, image understanding, structured AI output, camera-based features, or App Intents.
Why use it?
It gives developers patterns for connecting an app to Apple’s built-in AI features, checking model availability, producing structured results, and exposing app actions to Siri, Shortcuts, or Spotlight.

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

not rated 708repo +15 1mo ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 34 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it when building AI features for Apple platforms, such as on-device text generation, image understanding, structured AI output, camera-based features, or App Intents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/apple-intelligence
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 apple-intelligence
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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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 778 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 20 Apr 2026
  • Snyk pass 20 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 $0.00034 $0.00778
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00389
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00078

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2668a67371ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apple-intelligence 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 8d 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/apple-intelligence/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 Intelligence Skills

Skills for implementing Apple Intelligence features including on-device LLMs, visual recognition, App Intents integration, and intelligent assistants.

When This Skill Activates

Use this skill when the user:

  • Wants to add AI/LLM features to their app
  • Needs on-device text generation or understanding
  • Asks about Foundation Models or Apple Intelligence
  • Wants to implement structured AI output
  • Needs prompt engineering guidance
  • Wants camera-based visual intelligence features
  • Needs Siri, Shortcuts, or Spotlight integration via App Intents
  • Wants to expose app actions or content to the system

Available Skills

foundation-models/

On-device LLM integration with prompt engineering best practices.

  • Model availability checking
  • Session management
  • @Generable structured output (property-order + schema-injection rules)
  • Tool calling patterns
  • Snapshot streaming
  • Prompt engineering techniques
  • safety-and-guardrails.md — model limits, the instructions-over-prompts hierarchy, guardrail handling, the four-layer safety stack, evals
  • models-and-agents.md — Private Cloud Compute, LanguageModel protocol (third-party backends), vision input, DynamicProfile agents, tool-calling modes, KV-cache rules

visual-intelligence/

Integrate with iOS Visual Intelligence for camera-based search.

  • IntentValueQuery implementation
  • SemanticContentDescriptor handling
  • AppEntity for searchable content
  • Display representations
  • Deep linking from results

app-intents/

App Intents for Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight, and Apple Intelligence.

  • AppIntent protocol, parameters, perform()
  • AppEntity and entity queries
  • App Shortcuts with voice phrases
  • IndexedEntity and Spotlight indexing
  • Intent modes (background, foreground)
  • Interactive snippets with SnippetIntent
  • Visual intelligence integration
  • Onscreen entities for Siri/ChatGPT
  • Multiple choice API
  • Swift package support

Key Principles

1. Privacy First

  • On-device processing by default; Private Cloud Compute extends capacity without storing prompts (no account/API keys — WWDC26 241)
  • When routing to less-private backends, redact context first (see foundation-models/models-and-agents.md)

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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. 8d ago First seen · 82 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 2668a67371ea

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apple-intelligence is a skill published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (708 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 778 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.

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