What is visionos-widgets?

A guide to building widgets for visionOS, Apple's operating system for spatial computing. It covers widgets placed in physical space, including their mounting, visual treatment, size of detail, and display modes.

Use it to create or adapt visionOS widgets, choose surface or wall placement, select glass or paper styling, handle proximity-based detail, and choose spatial widget families.

It helps adapt ordinary widgets to surroundings and user distance, so they remain readable and visually appropriate when viewed in a three-dimensional environment.

visionos-widgets — Skill for Claude Code by rshankras

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent

npx skills add rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills --skill widgets

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 182 skills.

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When invoked 2,533 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.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00037	$0.02533
Opus 5.5	$0.00015	$0.01013
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00507
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00253

Measured yesterday against content hash e92eb43848e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

visionos-widgets 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 yesterday.

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/visionos/widgets/SKILL.md · 288 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 288 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

visionOS Widgets

Patterns for building widgets that live in physical space on visionOS. Covers mounting styles, textures, proximity-aware detail levels, spatial widget families, and rendering modes.

When This Skill Activates

Use this skill when the user:

Asks to create or adapt a widget for visionOS
Mentions mounting styles (elevated, recessed)
Wants glass or paper texture on a widget
Asks about proximity awareness or level of detail in widgets
Mentions spatial widget families or .systemExtraLargePortrait
Wants to control container backgrounds or rendering modes (full color vs accented)
Is porting an existing iOS/iPadOS widget to visionOS

Decision Tree

What do you need for your visionOS widget?
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+- Where should the widget appear?
|  +- On a surface (table, shelf) -> .elevated (default)
|  +- Embedded in a wall -> .recessed
|  +- Both -> .supportedMountingStyles([.elevated, .recessed])
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+- What visual treatment?
|  +- Transparent, blends with environment -> .glass (default)
|  +- Opaque, poster-like appearance -> .paper
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+- How should it respond to user distance?
|  +- Full detail when close -> @Environment(\.levelOfDetail) == .default
|  +- Simplified when far -> @Environment(\.levelOfDetail) == .simplified
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+- What size families?
|  +- Standard -> .systemSmall, .systemMedium, .systemLarge, .systemExtraLarge
|  +- Tall portrait -> .systemExtraLargePortrait (visionOS only)
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+- How should colors render?
|  +- Full color (default) -> No extra work
|  +- System-tinted monochrome -> Mark backgrounds with .containerBackground(for:)

API Availability

API	Minimum Version	Notes
WidgetKit on visionOS	visionOS 1.0	Basic widget support
`.containerBackground(for: .widget)`	visionOS 1.0	Removable background marking
`@Environment(\.showsWidgetContainerBackground)`	visionOS 1.0	Background visibility check
`.supportedMountingStyles()`	visionOS 2.0	Elevated and recessed placement
`.widgetTexture(.glass / .paper)`	visionOS 2.0	Widget surface material
`@Environment(\.levelOfDetail)`	visionOS 2.0	Proximity-aware layouts
`.systemExtraLargePortrait`	visionOS 2.0	Tall portrait widget family

Read the full file on GitHub · 288 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.

yesterday First seen · 288 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A e92eb43848e4

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visionos-widgets is a skill published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (864 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,533 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-11-05.

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