Apple HIG Skills

Name: Apple HIG Skills
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Apple HIG Skills provides AI coding assistants with deep knowledge of Apple's Human Interface Guidelines. It offers 14 agent skills to ensure platform-specific design guidance for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and visionOS.

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Free

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Yes

API

Skill level

Technical

About

What is Apple HIG Skills?

Apple HIG Skills equips AI coding assistants with comprehensive knowledge of Apple's Human Interface Guidelines (HIG), preventing hallucinated patterns and incorrect platform advice. It offers 14 agent skills covering over 100 HIG reference topics, ensuring accurate, platform-specific guidance for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and visionOS. The tool is built on the open Agent Skills standard, allowing it to work with various AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot. It provides a progressive disclosure model, loading only relevant information (around 4,000 tokens per question) to conserve context windows. This allows developers and designers to get instant, grounded answers to design questions without manually sifting through extensive documentation, ensuring native-feeling UI and faster App Store approval.

Best used for

Ideal for developers and UX designers who need to quickly access Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, ensure their app designs are compliant, and avoid common platform-specific mistakes. Especially valuable for teams building AI-generated UI that needs to feel native and pass App Store review.

Common actions

design apps

code apps

ensure compliance

get design guidance

audit code

artificial intelligenceGitHubopen-sourceApple

Capabilities

Key features

14 agent skills
100+ HIG reference topics
Platform-specific design guidance
Progressive disclosure of info
Works with Claude Code
HIG audit tool

Target Audience

developerux designer

Integrations

claude-codecursorgithub-copilot

Pricing & Plans

Free

Not publicly disclosed. Check apple.raintree.technology for current pricing.

FAQs

How does Apple HIG Skills prevent AI from hallucinating design patterns?

The tool provides AI agents with the complete Apple Human Interface Guidelines through 14 specialized skills. This ensures that the AI's responses are grounded in Apple's actual text and platform-specific conventions, rather than generating generic or incorrect design advice.

What platforms and topics are covered by Apple HIG Skills?

It covers design guidance for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and visionOS. Topics include visual foundations, UX patterns, content components, layout, menus, controls, system experiences like widgets, input methods, and Apple technology integrations such as Apple Pay and Siri.

How does Apple HIG Skills optimize context window usage for AI agents?

It uses a progressive disclosure model. Instead of dumping the entire HIG, it loads only the exact, relevant topic needed for a question, typically around 4,000 tokens. This significantly reduces context window usage compared to the full 50,000+ token HIG.

Is Apple HIG Skills an official Apple product?

No, Apple HIG Skills is developed by Raintree and is not an official Apple product. It is built to provide AI agents with knowledge of Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, but it is an independent offering.

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