tipkit-generator

tipkit-generator is a skill for Claude Code from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills. It costs 39 tokens per session (2,047 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A generator for Apple TipKit, the iOS and macOS framework for showing contextual hints inside an app. It supports inline tips, popovers, display rules, frequency settings, and testing helpers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add onboarding hints, coach marks, feature-discovery prompts, or explanations for specific controls and features.
Why use it?
It removes the repeated setup needed to guide users through unfamiliar features. Tips can appear in context instead of requiring a separate tutorial.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; positional $N argument.

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

Good fit Use it to add onboarding hints, coach marks, feature-discovery prompts, or explanations for specific controls and features.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/tipkit-generator
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 tipkit-generator
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 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,047 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 $0.00039 $0.02047
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01024
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00409
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00205

Measured 5d ago against content hash aea5ee98033b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tipkit-generator 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/generators/tipkit-generator/SKILL.md · 266 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 266 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TipKit Generator

Generate a complete TipKit setup for contextual tips and feature discovery, including tip definitions, rules, display frequency, inline and popover presentation, and testing utilities.

When This Skill Activates

Use this skill when the user:

  • Asks to "add tips" or "add TipKit"
  • Mentions "contextual tips" or "feature discovery"
  • Wants "popover tips" or "inline tips"
  • Asks about "coach marks" or "user education"
  • Mentions "onboarding hints" or "tip prompts"
  • Wants to "highlight new features" or "guide users"

Pre-Generation Checks

1. Project Context Detection

  • Check deployment target (TipKit requires iOS 17+ / macOS 14+)
  • Identify if SwiftUI or UIKit project
  • Find App entry point location for Tips.configure()
  • Check for existing TipKit implementations

2. Conflict Detection

Search for existing TipKit usage:

Glob: **/*Tip*.swift
Grep: "import TipKit" or "Tips.configure"

If found, ask user:

  • Extend existing tip infrastructure?
  • Replace existing tips?

Configuration Questions

Ask user via AskUserQuestion:

  1. What features need tips?

    • List the features or UI elements that should have tips
    • Example: "search bar, filter button, swipe-to-delete gesture"
  2. Tip presentation style? (per tip or general preference)

    • Inline (TipView embedded in layout)
    • Popover (attached to a control)
    • Both
  3. Rule types needed?

    • Parameter-based (show after user meets condition, e.g., has viewed a screen 3 times)
    • Event-based (show after user performs an action N times)
    • Both
  4. Display frequency?

    • Immediate (tips show as soon as eligible)
    • Hourly
    • Daily
    • Weekly
    • Monthly
  5. Tip ordering?

    • Independent (tips show whenever eligible)
    • Ordered (use TipGroup to show tips in sequence)

Generation Process

Step 1: Read Templates

Read the templates file for code patterns:

Read("skills/generators/tipkit-generator/templates.md")

Step 2: Create Core Files

Read the full file on GitHub · 266 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. 5d ago First seen · 266 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A aea5ee98033b

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tipkit-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (710 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,047 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.