ios-development

ios-development is a skill for Claude Code from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (782 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A broad iOS development guide covering Swift, SwiftUI, Apple’s interface guidelines, accessibility, app planning, and Simulator-based checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing iOS code and interfaces, planning apps, checking accessibility, designing navigation, and running an app in the Simulator to verify changes.
Why use it?
It gives developers a starting point for common iOS work without requiring them to know which specialist review or planning area they need.

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 Reviewing iOS code and interfaces, planning apps, checking accessibility, designing navigation, and running an app in the Simulator to verify changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/ios
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 ios
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.

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.

agentmods badge for ios-development

README.md
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 782 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 $0.00050 $0.00782
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00391
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00078

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8612883b7588, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ios-development 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 5d 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/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

iOS Development Expert

Comprehensive guidance for iOS app development. This skill aggregates specialized modules for different aspects of iOS development.

When This Skill Activates

Use this skill when the user:

  • Asks about iOS development best practices
  • Wants code review for iOS/Swift projects
  • Needs UI/UX review against Human Interface Guidelines
  • Wants accessibility audit for iOS apps
  • Is planning a new iOS app
  • Needs help with SwiftUI patterns for iOS
  • Asks about navigation architecture (NavigationStack, NavigationSplitView, TabView)
  • Wants to run/launch the app in the Simulator or screenshot it to verify a change

Available Modules

Read relevant module files based on the user's needs:

coding-best-practices/

Swift code quality and modern idioms for iOS.

  • Modern Swift patterns and idioms
  • Architecture patterns (MVVM, Clean Architecture)
  • Code quality standards
  • Performance optimization

ui-review/

UI/UX review against Apple HIG.

  • Human Interface Guidelines compliance
  • Font usage and Dynamic Type support
  • Accessibility review (VoiceOver, color contrast)
  • SwiftUI best practices for iOS/watchOS

accessibility-audit/

Structured accessibility audit workflow (advisory).

  • Automated XCUITest audits (performAccessibilityAudit) + CI patterns
  • Accessibility Inspector workflow
  • Manual VoiceOver / Voice Control / Dynamic Type passes per common task
  • App Store Accessibility Nutrition Label evaluation + declaration

navigation-patterns/

SwiftUI navigation architecture patterns.

  • NavigationStack, NavigationLink, navigationDestination
  • NavigationSplitView (two/three column, iPad/macOS)
  • TabView (iOS 18 customizable tabs, sidebar mode)
  • Programmatic navigation (NavigationPath, pop-to-root, state restoration)
  • Navigation transitions (zoom, custom animations)

app-planner/

iOS app planning and analysis.

  • New app concept to architecture
  • Existing app audits
  • Tech stack evaluation
  • Product planning guidance

run-simulator/

Build, install, launch, and screenshot the app in the Simulator to verify a change visually (operational — uses Bash, not just guidance).

  • Discover scheme + an available simulator (no hardcoded device names)
  • Build for the simulator and resolve the .app + bundle id
  • Boot, install, launch, then screenshot and read it back
  • Drive navigation / deep links to reach the changed screen

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 lines

Files

What ships with it

37 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. 5d ago First seen · 95 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 8612883b7588

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ios-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (710 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 782 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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