screen-time-api-engineer

screen-time-api-engineer is a skill for Codex from Siddhu7007/screen-time-api-agent-skill. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,143 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A development guide for apps that use Apple's Screen Time APIs, which provide access to screen-use controls and activity data. It requires decisions to be checked against Apple's documentation, SDK files, and project evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when implementing permissions, family activity selection, app and activity labels, blocking policies, signing, distribution, or App Store review preparation.
Why use it?
It helps avoid relying on outdated examples or uncertain assumptions about Apple's APIs. It also makes unclear conclusions and supporting evidence explicit.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it when implementing permissions, family activity selection, app and activity labels, blocking policies, signing, distribution, or App Store review preparation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/siddhu7007/screen-time-api-agent-skill/screen-time-api-engineer
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Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Siddhu7007/screen-time-api-agent-skill --skill screen-time-api-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Siddhu7007/screen-time-api-agent-skill

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,143 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

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 $0.00079 $0.01143
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00457
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00229
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00114

Measured 16d ago against content hash 545d9a8e2326, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

screen-time-api-engineer 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 16d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/check_required_sections.sh, scripts/check_source_coverage.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/screen-time-api-engineer/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Screen Time API Engineer

Use this skill to implement and harden Screen Time API apps with a docs-first evidence model.

Rules

  • Use this evidence order for decisions:
    1. Canonical Apple docs and WWDC
    2. Local SDK interfaces/headers
    3. Project-observed implementations (Project Alpha/Project Beta)
    4. Field notes (forums/medium)
  • If sources conflict, prefer canonical + SDK behavior.
  • Mark uncertain conclusions as inference and include a caveat.

SDK Baseline

  • Evidence re-verified against the iOS 27.0 SDK (Xcode 27.0, build 27A266a) on 2026-10-21.
  • iOS 26.2 to 26.5 added Screen Time APIs: picker title, data access (EU only), shield submenus, token refresh, store lifecycle. iOS 27.0 added none.
  • Gate any API newer than the app's deployment target with #available and state the iOS version it needs.

Quick Start Workflow

  1. Identify user goal category.
  2. Open matching references from references/guides.
  3. Cross-check critical API claims in references/evidence.
  4. If implementation quality or regressions matter, use references/rundowns.
  5. Produce output with explicit source/confidence labeling.

Goal to Reference Map

  • Entitlements, signing, distribution approval:
    • references/guides/02-authorization-setup.md
    • references/guides/19-release-and-app-review-checklist.md
  • Family activity picker and token handling:
    • references/guides/03-familycontrols-selection-and-token-model.md
    • references/guides/04-displaying-activity-labels-and-real-app-icons.md
  • Shield policy and store behavior:
    • references/guides/05-managedsettings-enforcement-patterns.md
    • references/guides/06-web-blocking-and-webdomain-policy.md
  • Custom shield UI/action:
    • references/guides/07-managedsettingsui-custom-shield-systems.md
    • references/guides/08-shield-actions-and-response-strategies.md
  • Scheduling and monitor callbacks:
    • references/guides/09-deviceactivity-scheduling-thresholds-and-errors.md
    • references/guides/10-deviceactivity-monitor-extension-playbook.md
  • Usage analytics reporting:
    • references/guides/11-deviceactivity-report-analytics-architecture.md
  • Reading usage data in the host app (iOS 26.4+, EU only):
    • references/guides/02-authorization-setup.md
    • references/guides/11-deviceactivity-report-analytics-architecture.md
  • Web usage control/reporting via ScreenTime framework:
    • references/guides/12-screentime-framework-web-usage-reporting.md
  • Onboarding and permission UX:
    • references/guides/13-onboarding-and-permission-ui-blueprints.md
  • End-to-end implementation reference:
    • references/guides/14-app-and-website-blocking-reference-implementation.md
  • Project deep dives and comparative hardening:
    • references/guides/15-project-alpha-implementation-analysis.md
    • references/guides/16-project-beta-implementation-analysis.md
    • references/rundowns/12-cross-project-rundown.md
  • Bug prevention, testing, and preflight:
    • references/guides/17-hardening-checklist-bug-prevention.md
    • references/guides/18-testing-matrix-device-only-edge-cases.md
    • references/guides/21-preflight-rundown.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 lines

Files

What ships with it

36 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. 16d ago Changed · +8 lines 545d9a8e2326
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 80 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 98bad1764f9c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

screen-time-api-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Siddhu7007/screen-time-api-agent-skill (24 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,143 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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