state-restoration

state-restoration is a skill for Claude Code from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (2,319 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An iOS and macOS app state-saving system that remembers navigation paths, selected tabs, scroll positions, and form data across launches or termination.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to resume an app where the user left off and preserve navigation, tab choices, scrolling, or form drafts.
Why use it?
It prevents users from losing their place or unfinished form entries when an app closes or runs in the background.

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

Good fit Use it to resume an app where the user left off and preserve navigation, tab choices, scrolling, or form drafts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/state-restoration
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 state-restoration
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 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,319 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: 1 finding, up to high

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 →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 285
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
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 $0.00054 $0.02319
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01159
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00464
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00232

Measured 7d ago against content hash e62e17d3fd04, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

state-restoration 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/generators/state-restoration/SKILL.md · 292 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 292 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

State Restoration Generator

Generate production state restoration infrastructure that saves and restores app state (selected tab, scroll position, navigation path, form data) across launches and background termination. Uses Codable state models, @SceneStorage, @AppStorage, and custom file-based persistence.

When This Skill Activates

Use this skill when the user:

  • Asks to "add state restoration" or "restore state"
  • Wants to "save app state" or "persist UI state"
  • Mentions "preserve navigation" or "remember navigation path"
  • Asks to "remember scroll position" or "restore scroll position"
  • Wants the app to "resume where left off" or "remember where I was"
  • Asks about "saving form drafts" or "preserve form data"
  • Mentions "tab selection persistence" or "remember selected tab"

Pre-Generation Checks

1. Project Context Detection

  • Check Swift version (requires Swift 5.9+)
  • Check deployment target (iOS 17+ / macOS 14+ for @Observable)
  • Check for existing state saving code
  • Identify source file locations

2. Conflict Detection

Search for existing state restoration:

Glob: **/*StateRestoration*.swift, **/*AppState*.swift, **/*SceneStorage*.swift
Grep: "SceneStorage" or "NavigationPath" or "selectedTab" or "scrollPosition"

If existing state management found:

  • Ask if user wants to replace or extend it
  • If extending, integrate with the existing approach

3. Navigation Pattern Detection

Determine which navigation pattern the app uses:

Grep: "NavigationStack" or "NavigationSplitView" or "TabView" or "NavigationLink"

This affects which restoration components to generate.

Configuration Questions

Ask user via AskUserQuestion:

  1. What state to restore? (multi-select)

    • Navigation path (back stack, detail selection)
    • Selected tab (TabView selection)
    • Scroll position (list/scroll view offset)
    • Form data (unsaved drafts and input fields)
    • All of the above — recommended
  2. Storage method?

    • @SceneStorage / @AppStorage (simple, per-scene, limited to basic types)
    • UserDefaults (shared across scenes, limited size)
    • File-based (Codable to JSON file in Application Support — recommended for complex state)

Read the full file on GitHub · 292 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 7d ago First seen · 292 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A e62e17d3fd04

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state-restoration is a skill published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (713 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,319 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.