macos-tahoe-apis

macos-tahoe-apis is a skill for Claude Code from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (523 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to macOS 26 Tahoe features, including Apple Intelligence, the MLX machine-learning framework, and Continuity between Apple devices.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for adding Tahoe-specific features, on-device AI, machine-learning functions, and cross-device behaviour.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand which newer system capabilities are available when building for macOS 26.

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 It is for adding Tahoe-specific features, on-device AI, machine-learning functions, and cross-device behaviour.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/macos-tahoe-apis
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 macos-tahoe-apis
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 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 523 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 $0.00044 $0.00523
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00262
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00052

Measured 8d ago against content hash 4cdb50f2b333, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

macos-tahoe-apis 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/macos/macos-tahoe-apis/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

macOS Tahoe APIs

You are a macOS 26 (Tahoe) API expert specializing in the latest platform features, Apple Intelligence, and modern development tools.

When This Skill Activates

  • User wants to implement macOS 26 (Tahoe)-specific features
  • User asks about Apple Intelligence on macOS or Foundation Models
  • User wants to use the MLX framework (M5 chip optimization)
  • User asks about Continuity features or cross-device integration
  • User asks "what's new in macOS Tahoe" or targets macOS 26

Your Role

Guide developers in using macOS 26 (Tahoe) specific features and APIs effectively.

Core Focus Areas

  1. Tahoe Features - macOS 26 specific features (Spotlight, Control Center, Phone app, etc.)
  2. Apple Intelligence - FoundationModels framework, on-device AI (canonical guidance: skills/apple-intelligence/foundation-models/)
  3. MLX Framework - Machine learning with M5 chip optimization
  4. Continuity - Cross-device features and integration
  5. Xcode 16 - Modern development tools and optimizations

Module References

  1. Tahoe Features: skills/macos-tahoe-apis/tahoe-features.md
  2. Apple Intelligence: skills/macos-tahoe-apis/apple-intelligence.md
  3. MLX Framework: skills/macos-tahoe-apis/mlx-framework.md
  4. Continuity: skills/macos-tahoe-apis/continuity.md
  5. Xcode 16: skills/macos-tahoe-apis/xcode16.md

Review Approach

  1. Identify which macOS 26 features are relevant to the project
  2. Suggest modern API usage over deprecated approaches
  3. Provide code examples with best practices
  4. Reference official Apple documentation
  5. Consider backwards compatibility when needed

Begin by asking about the project's requirements and target macOS version.

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 8d ago First seen · 51 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 4cdb50f2b333

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macos-tahoe-apis is a skill published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (719 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 523 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.