apple-skills

Claude Code Skills for Apple Platform Development

A collection of Claude Code skills for iOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and Apple platform development. These skills help you plan and build apps, maintain code quality, ensure HIG compliance, and guide you from idea to App Store.

Part of the indie Apple developer stack

Four repos, four layers — use one or all:

Layer	Repo	What it is
Knowledge	claude-code-apple-skills ← you are here	147 skills — how to build right
Workflow	SwiftShip	49 /apple:* commands — spec-driven idea → App Store
Action	indie-app-autopilot	7 agents — GitHub issue → App Store
Integration	asc-metadata-mcp	65+ MCP tools — live App Store Connect API

What's Included

Category	Skills	Purpose
Generators	63	Production-ready code for common features
Product	14	Idea discovery to App Store workflow
iOS	9	Code review, UI review, navigation, iPad, migration, accessibility, simulator/device runs
Testing	9	TDD workflows, test infrastructure, snapshot tests, flow walkthrough
macOS	8	Tahoe APIs, SwiftData, AppKit bridge
App Store	9	ASO, descriptions, keywords, reviews, search ads, rejections, originality, IAP finalize
SwiftUI	5	AlarmKit, WebKit, text editing, toolbars, Charts 3D
Growth	5	Analytics, store signals, press/media, community, indie business
Swift	3	Concurrency patterns, Swift 6.2, InlineArray/Span
Apple Intelligence	3	Foundation Models, Visual Intelligence, App Intents
Design	3	Liquid Glass (SwiftUI/AppKit/UIKit/WidgetKit), animation patterns, UI prototyping
Performance	2	Instruments profiling, SwiftUI debugging
Security	2	Secure storage, biometrics, privacy manifests
Core ML	1	Vision, NaturalLanguage, model integration
Legal	2	Privacy policies, terms of service, EULAs, publish + set ASC URLs
Monetization	1	Pricing strategy, tiers, free trials
watchOS	1	Watch apps, complications, health/fitness, widgets
SwiftData	1	Class inheritance patterns
MapKit	1	GeoToolbox, place descriptors
Foundation	1	AttributedString updates
visionOS	1	Widget development
Release Review	1	Pre-release audit checklists
Shared	2	Meta-skills for creating (skill-creator) and auditing (skill-auditor) skills

Total: 147 skills across 23 categories (single-skill categories count their category file; other index files aren't counted — enforced by scripts/check-counts.sh in CI)

Quick Start

How to Use

No idea yet? Say: "I don't know what to build"

New app? Say: "I have an idea for a macOS app that does X. Should I build it?"

Existing app? Say: "Review my code" or "Add [feature]"

See docs/USAGE.md for complete guide.

Install as a Plugin (recommended)

In Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills
/plugin install apple-skills@indie-apple-stack

This surfaces the library as 23 category skills (/apple-skills:generators, /apple-skills:testing, ...); each category skill routes to its sub-skills on demand, so only 23 short descriptions sit in context. Update any time with /plugin marketplace update indie-apple-stack — no version pinning, you always track main.

Want the full workflow too? The same marketplace carries SwiftShip's 49 /apple:* commands:

/plugin install apple@indie-apple-stack

Manual Install (copy)

# Clone
git clone https://github.com/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills.git

# Copy to your project
cp -r claude-code-apple-skills/skills your-project/.claude/skills/

# Or install globally
cp -r claude-code-apple-skills/skills ~/.claude/skills/

Pinning and rollback

Plugin installs track main with no version pinning. If you need a stable snapshot, annotated era tags mark each WWDC content boundary (see CHANGELOG.md): git clone --branch wwdc25-era-final https://github.com/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills.git and copy skills/ manually as above.

Directory Structure