app-vision

app-vision is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from troyjthomas/ios-agent-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (765 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided conversation that turns a rough iOS app idea into a defined concept with a target user, goals, scope, and core screens. iOS is Apple's operating system for iPhone and iPad.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting an app from scratch or when an idea is still vague. It helps clarify the one-sentence purpose, intended user, current workaround, and first-release screens.
Why use it?
It reduces uncertainty before implementation and helps limit the first version to the screens and functions that matter most.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it when starting an app from scratch or when an idea is still vague. It helps clarify the one-sentence purpose, intended user, current workaround, and first-release screens.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/troyjthomas/ios-agent-skills/app-vision
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 troyjthomas/ios-agent-skills --skill app-vision
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/troyjthomas/ios-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 765 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 $0.00076 $0.00765
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00382
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00076

Measured 9d ago against content hash fc8af03597d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-vision 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 9d 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/app-vision/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

App Vision

Turn a rough idea into a concrete app concept. This happens in Claude chat, not Claude Code.

When to Use

  • You have an app idea but haven't defined scope
  • You're starting a brand new project
  • You need to articulate what the app is before building anything

The Conversation

Work through these questions. You don't need to answer them all at once. The goal is a clear picture, not a formal document.

1. The Elevator Pitch

What does this app do in one sentence? If you can't say it in one sentence, the scope is too big for v1. Examples:

  • "Track crochet projects and count stitches"
  • "Split restaurant bills with friends"
  • "Log daily mood with a single tap"

2. Who Is It For

One specific person, not "everyone." Ideally someone you know.

  • Who will use this every day?
  • What are they doing RIGHT NOW without your app? (Paper? Spreadsheet? A worse app?)
  • What's the one thing they'd thank you for?

3. Core Screens (The 80/20)

List every screen you can imagine. Then cut it in half. Then cut it again. What remains is v1.

The test: If you removed this screen, would the app still work? If yes, it's not v1.

V1 should have 5-12 screens. More than that and you're building v2 before v1 ships.

4. What It's NOT

Defining boundaries prevents scope creep. Write down 3-5 things this app will NOT do in v1.

5. Platform and Constraints

  • iPhone only? iPad too? Mac?
  • Offline-first or requires internet?
  • Needs backend/server or local-only?
  • Any third-party integrations? (HealthKit, CloudKit, Sign in with Apple)

Output

By the end of this conversation, you should have:

  1. One-sentence pitch
  2. Target user (a real person or archetype)
  3. Screen list (5-12 screens with one-line descriptions)
  4. Not-doing list (3-5 things explicitly out of scope)
  5. Platform targets and key constraints

This output feeds directly into the app-spec skill. Do not open Claude Code until this is done.

Anti-Patterns

Temptation Why It Fails
"Let me just start building and see what happens" You'll build 60% of an incoherent app and have to start over
"I want it to do everything the competitor does" You'll never ship. Pick the 3 things you do better
"I'll figure out navigation later" Navigation IS the app. Define it now
"It should work on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Watch" Ship on iPhone first. Expand after v1
"I don't need to write this down, it's all in my head" Claude Code can't read your head. Write it down

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 73 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A fc8af03597d7

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app-vision is a skill published in the GitHub repository troyjthomas/ios-agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 765 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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