What is widget-generator?

A generator for WidgetKit, Apple’s framework for showing app information on the iPhone or Mac Home Screen and Lock Screen. It covers scheduled updates, interactive controls, and configurable widgets.

Use it to add Home Screen widgets, Lock Screen widgets, timeline updates, buttons or toggles, and App Intent-based configuration.

It provides the pieces needed to display useful app data outside the main app. It also helps handle different widget sizes and user-selected settings.

widget-generator — Skill for Claude Code by rshankras

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 widget-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.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/widget-generator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/widget-generator.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,175 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00037	$0.03175
Opus 5	$0.00018	$0.01588
Sonnet 5	$0.00007	$0.00635
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00317

Measured 5d ago against content hash 798cb2933275, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

widget-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/widget-generator/SKILL.md · 287 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 287 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generate a complete WidgetKit widget implementation with timeline providers, size-specific views, lock screen accessory widgets, interactive elements (iOS 17+), and App Intent configuration.

When This Skill Activates

Use this skill when the user:

Asks to "add widgets" or "add a widget" to their app
Mentions "WidgetKit" or "home screen widgets"
Wants "lock screen widgets" or "accessory widgets"
Asks about "widget timelines" or "timeline providers"
Wants "interactive widgets" with buttons or toggles
Mentions "widget configuration" or "configurable widgets"
Asks about "App Intent widgets" or "AppIntentConfiguration"
Wants to show data on the home screen or lock screen

Pre-Generation Checks

1. Project Context Detection

Check for existing widget extension target
Check for an existing WidgetBundle
Verify deployment target (iOS 17+ recommended for interactive widgets)
Identify source file locations and project structure

2. Conflict Detection

Search for existing widget code:

Glob: **/*Widget*.swift, **/*TimelineProvider*.swift
Grep: "WidgetKit" or "TimelineProvider" or "WidgetBundle" or "WidgetConfiguration"

If an existing widget extension is found:

Ask if the new widget should be added to the existing widget extension
Check for an existing WidgetBundle to extend

If a WidgetBundle already exists:

Add the new widget to the existing bundle instead of creating a new one
Do NOT create a second @main entry point

If widget code with the same name exists:

Ask user whether to replace or rename

3. Required Capabilities

Widgets require:

A widget extension target (File > New > Target > Widget Extension)
App Groups capability if sharing data between the main app and widget
iOS 14+ for basic widgets, iOS 16+ for lock screen, iOS 17+ for interactive widgets

Configuration Questions

Ask user via AskUserQuestion:

What is this widget for? (freeform)
- Examples: weather forecast, task list, fitness stats, quick actions, countdown timer
- This determines the data model and timeline update strategy

Read the full file on GitHub · 287 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.

templates.md 33 KB

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.

5d ago First seen · 287 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 798cb2933275

Subscribe to this mod's changes

widget-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (710 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 3,175 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.