assistive-access

assistive-access is a skill for Claude Code from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills. It costs 35 tokens per session (2,945 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to supporting Assistive Access in iOS and iPadOS apps. Assistive Access is an Apple mode that simplifies the interface for people with cognitive disabilities through larger controls and reduced complexity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Adding simplified scenes and navigation, selecting suitable icons, detecting Assistive Access at runtime, and reviewing cognitive-accessibility decisions.
Why use it?
It helps an app work appropriately in a simplified system experience instead of assuming the standard interface suits every user.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

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

Good fit Adding simplified scenes and navigation, selecting suitable icons, detecting Assistive Access at runtime, and reviewing cognitive-accessibility decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/assistive-access
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 assistive-access
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 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,945 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 6 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 42
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 44
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 335
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 349
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 282
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 340
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00035 $0.02945
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01473
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00589
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00295

Measured 7d ago against content hash 4a62b3d14e8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

assistive-access 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 7d 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/ios/assistive-access/SKILL.md · 370 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 370 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Assistive Access

Guide for implementing Assistive Access support in iOS and iPadOS apps. Assistive Access (iOS 17+/iPadOS 17+) provides a streamlined system experience for people with cognitive disabilities, presenting simplified interfaces with large controls and reduced complexity.

When This Skill Activates

  • User wants to add Assistive Access support to their app
  • User asks about cognitive accessibility or simplified interfaces
  • User mentions AssistiveAccess, UISupportsAssistiveAccess, or assistive access scenes
  • User needs runtime detection of Assistive Access mode
  • User is reviewing accessibility compliance for cognitive disabilities
  • User asks about .assistiveAccessNavigationIcon

Setup

The Three Integration Levels (WWDC25 238)

  • No adoption: the app runs in a reduced frame to leave room for the system back button always shown along the bottom (back returns to the Assistive Access Home Screen). The reduced frame keeps apps built for specific device sizes rendering correctly.
  • Full screen as-is (UISupportsFullScreenInAssistiveAccess): for apps already designed for cognitive accessibility — AAC apps and similar tools. The app looks identical to normal, just full-screen; requires layout that adapts to arbitrary sizes.
  • AssistiveAccess scene (UISupportsAssistiveAccess + the scene below, iOS 26/ iPadOS 26): a tailored experience where native controls automatically render in the large, prominent Assistive Access style and follow the user's grid-or-rows layout setting. Recommended when unsure (WWDC25 238).

The Assistive Access mode itself shipped with iOS 17; the AssistiveAccess scene type, UISupportsAssistiveAccess key, and .assistiveAccess preview trait are iOS 26 APIs.

Step 1: Declare Support in Info.plist

Add these keys to your app's Info.plist so the system lists your app as an "Optimized App" in Assistive Access configuration:

<key>UISupportsAssistiveAccess</key>
<true/>

Read the full file on GitHub · 370 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. 7d ago First seen · 370 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 4a62b3d14e8e

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assistive-access is a skill published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (713 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 2,945 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 2026-09-03.

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