app-icon-studio

app-icon-studio is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Xopoko/build-swift-apps. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,030 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for creating and checking Apple app icons for iOS and macOS. It covers the image assets used on home screens, in the Dock, and in Finder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create icon concepts, test them at practical sizes, export a 1024-pixel master, install icon assets, or troubleshoot iOS and macOS icon configuration.
Why use it?
It focuses on making icons recognizable at small sizes and producing files in the formats Apple expects.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the build-swift-apps plugin — 61 skills, 3 commands, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to create icon concepts, test them at practical sizes, export a 1024-pixel master, install icon assets, or troubleshoot iOS and macOS icon configuration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xopoko/build-swift-apps/app-icon-studio
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 Xopoko/build-swift-apps --skill app-icon-studio
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Xopoko/build-swift-apps

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install build-swift-apps, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 61 skills, 3 commands, 3 MCP servers.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,030 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 29
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 44
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00040 $0.01030
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00515
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00206
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00103

Measured 10d ago against content hash f951f30ffdd9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-icon-studio 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/generate_appiconset.py, scripts/preview_icon_readability.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/app-icon-studio/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

App Icon Studio

Create Apple-platform app icons from product context, generate polished candidates, test small-size recognition, and install valid iOS or macOS icon assets.

Workflow

  1. Inspect product reality: README, app name, screenshots, onboarding, paywall, core screens, audience, competitors if useful, and the target platform.
  2. Write the strategy:
    This icon should make <target user> remember <app name> as the app for <core job/emotion>, using <simple visual metaphor>.
    
  3. Generate 3-5 distinct directions with $imagegen unless the repo has a native vector/logo system that should be edited directly.
  4. Evaluate at practical sizes: about 60 px for iOS home-screen recognition, and 64, 32, and 16 px for macOS Dock/Finder stress checks.
  5. Refine one square 1024x1024 PNG master. Prefer no alpha for shared iOS/macOS assets and App Store readiness. Avoid text, screenshots, tiny details, and baked iOS rounded corners.
  6. Locate existing assets and preserve configured names:
    rg --files | rg 'Assets\.xcassets|AppIcon\.appiconset|\.icns$|Info\.plist|Contents\.json'
    rg 'ASSETCATALOG_COMPILER_APPICON_NAME|CFBundleIconFile|CFBundleIconName|AppIcon'
    
  7. Generate or replace the platform asset:
    # iOS asset catalog
    python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/generate_appiconset.py master-icon.png path/to/AppIcon.appiconset --platform ios --replace
    
    # macOS asset catalog
    python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/generate_appiconset.py master-icon.png path/to/AppIcon.appiconset --platform macos --replace
    
    # macOS bundle icon
    python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/generate_appiconset.py master-icon.png path/to/AppIcon.icns --platform macos --format icns --replace
    
  8. Build/run and inspect the installed icon: simulator/home screen for iOS, or the built .app bundle, Dock, Finder, and Info.plist for macOS. Clear icon caches or reinstall when the old icon is cached.

ImageGen Prompt Contract

Use $imagegen for raster artwork. Ask for an Apple-platform app icon, square 1024x1024 master artwork, one main symbol/metaphor, centered composition, strong contrast, 2-4 colors, no text/watermark/UI screenshot/flags/tiny details/baked iOS mask/transparent background unless a macOS transparent icon silhouette is explicitly desired.

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 10d ago First seen · 100 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A f951f30ffdd9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

app-icon-studio is a skill published in the GitHub repository Xopoko/build-swift-apps (45 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,030 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 2026-08-30.

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