apple-design-backend

apple-design-backend is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from s1gmamale1/apple-design-skills. It costs 187 tokens per session (800 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to how Apple’s online services deliver images, video, and app features. It also covers inferred server-side systems such as CloudKit, push notifications, and in-app purchases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when studying or designing content delivery, image URLs and formats, adaptive video streaming, caching, HTTP/2 or HTTP/3, and Apple-related backend services.
Why use it?
It helps reason about the web and server systems behind Apple experiences, including delivery speed, caching, and media playback.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it when studying or designing content delivery, image URLs and formats, adaptive video streaming, caching, HTTP/2 or HTTP/3, and Apple-related backend services.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/s1gmamale1/apple-design-skills/apple-design-backend
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 s1gmamale1/apple-design-skills --skill apple-design-backend
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/s1gmamale1/apple-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 187 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 800 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 unknown 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 $0.00187 $0.00800
Opus 5 $0.00093 $0.00400
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00160
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00080

Measured 12d ago against content hash 438e836e47f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apple-design-backend 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 12d 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/apple-design-backend/SKILL.md · 32 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 12d ago First seen · 32 lines · 187 tokens per session scan A 438e836e47f3

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apple-design-backend is a skill published in the GitHub repository s1gmamale1/apple-design-skills (18 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 187 tokens to every session and 800 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-30.

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