privacy-manifests

privacy-manifests is a skill for Claude Code from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (3,764 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for adding Apple’s PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy file to an app and declaring required API reasons, tracking domains, third-party SDK privacy, and App Tracking Transparency.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for preparing Apple apps for privacy requirements and auditing their privacy-related declarations before submission.
Why use it?
It helps prevent missing privacy declarations from causing App Store warnings or rejection.

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 preparing Apple apps for privacy requirements and auditing their privacy-related declarations before submission.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/privacy-manifests
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 privacy-manifests
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 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,764 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: 7 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 →

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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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 $0.00043 $0.03764
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01882
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00753
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00376

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3ce678c6654a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

privacy-manifests 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/security/privacy-manifests/SKILL.md · 398 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 398 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Privacy Manifests

Advisory skill for implementing Apple's privacy manifest (PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy) requirements: manifest file format, required reason APIs, tracking declarations, third-party SDK privacy, and App Tracking Transparency.

When This Skill Activates

Use this skill when the user:

  • Asks about "privacy manifest" or "PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy"
  • Mentions "required reason API" or App Store privacy rejection
  • Needs to declare "tracking domains" or "NSPrivacyTracking"
  • Asks about "App Tracking Transparency" or ATT
  • Wants to audit third-party SDK privacy declarations
  • Is preparing an app for App Store submission and mentions privacy
  • Gets an App Store Connect warning about missing privacy manifests
  • Asks about "privacy nutrition labels" or App Store privacy details

Decision Tree

Problem Section
Creating PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy from scratch Privacy Manifest File Format + Required Reason APIs
App Store rejection about required reason APIs Required Reason APIs (match APIs in your code)
Declaring tracking domains Tracking Domains and NSPrivacyTracking
Third-party SDK privacy Third-Party SDK Declarations
Implementing ATT App Tracking Transparency
Filling out App Store privacy labels Privacy Nutrition Labels
Generating Xcode report Xcode Privacy Report

Review Process

1. Scan the Project

Glob: **/PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy
Grep: "NSPrivacyAccessedAPITypes|NSPrivacyTracking|NSPrivacyTrackingDomains"
Grep: "NSFileCreationDate|NSFileModificationDate|NSURLCreationDateKey"
Grep: "systemUptime|ProcessInfo.*processInfo"
Grep: "volumeAvailableCapacity|URLResourceKey.*volume"
Grep: "UserDefaults"
Grep: "activeInputModes|UITextInputMode"
Grep: "ATTrackingManager|requestTrackingAuthorization"

2. Determine What Is Missing and Apply Fixes

Check: Does PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy exist? Are all required reason APIs declared? Is NSPrivacyTracking correct? Are tracking domains listed? Do third-party SDKs have their own manifests? Use the sections below to generate correct entries.

Read the full file on GitHub · 398 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 · 398 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 3ce678c6654a

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privacy-manifests is a skill published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (719 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 3,764 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.