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:

What's Included

Total: 164 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 — 53 /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

skills/
├── ios/                    # iOS code review, UI review, planning, navigation, iPad, migration, accessibility, device runs (CLI)
├── macos/                  # macOS patterns, Tahoe APIs, SwiftData
├── product/                # Idea to App Store workflow (14 skills)
├── generators/             # Code generators (63 skills)
│   ├── logging-setup/
│   ├── analytics-setup/
│   ├── networking-layer/
│   ├── auth-flow/
│   ├── paywall-generator/
│   ├── background-processing/
│   ├── app-extensions/
│   ├── data-export/
│   └── ... (63 total)
├── growth/                 # Growth audit, analytics, store signals, press/media, community, indie business (6 skills)
├── legal/                  # Privacy policies, terms of service, EULAs
├── core-ml/                # Vision, NaturalLanguage, model integration
├── swiftui/                # Data flow, layout & containers, AlarmKit, WebKit, text editing, toolbars, Charts 3D (7 skills)
├── apple-intelligence/     # Foundation Models, Visual Intelligence, App Intents
├── design/                 # Liquid Glass, animation patterns, UI prototyping, design principles, UX writing, SF Symbols, typography (7 skills)
├── performance/            # Instruments profiling, SwiftUI debugging
├── security/               # Keychain, biometrics, network security, privacy manifests
├── swift/                  # Concurrency patterns, Swift 6.2, InlineArray/Span, code-size limits (4 skills)
├── swiftdata/              # Class inheritance patterns
├── mapkit/                 # GeoToolbox, place descriptors
├── foundation/             # AttributedString updates
├── visionos/               # Spatial design (ergonomics, comfort, environments), widgets (2 skills)
├── testing/                # TDD workflows, test infrastructure, snapshot tests, flow walkthrough, deterministic gates (12 skills)
├── monetization/           # Pricing strategy, tiers, free trials, external purchases, bundles & licensing (3 skills)
├── app-store/              # ASO, descriptions, screenshots, reviews, search ads, ad attribution, rejections, originality, IAP finalize, ratings, web presence (12 skills)
├── watchos/                # Watch apps, complications, health/fitness, widgets
├── release-review/         # Security, privacy, UX, distribution audits
├── shared/                 # Meta-skills: skill-creator, skill-auditor
└── _shared/                # Internal helpers, not skills (asc-api — ASC REST helper used by iap-finalizer & privacy-publish)

Documentation

Generator Skills

Generate production-ready Swift code that adapts to your project: