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Apple HIG guidance for system experience components: widgets, live activities, notifications, complications, home screen quick actions, top shelf, watch faces, app clips, and app shortcuts.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

67%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

This is a well-structured design guidance skill that efficiently covers 9 system experience types with clear principles and good progressive disclosure via a reference index. Its main weakness is limited actionability — it provides directional design principles but lacks concrete examples like sample widget layouts, notification payloads, or SwiftUI code snippets that would make the guidance immediately executable. The 'When to Use' section is generic boilerplate that adds no value.

Suggestions

Add at least 2-3 concrete examples: a sample SwiftUI widget view, a notification payload, or a Live Activity configuration to make the guidance actionable rather than purely directional.

Remove the generic 'When to Use' section at the bottom, which adds no information and wastes tokens.

Include a brief example in the Output Format section showing what a completed recommendation looks like for a specific use case (e.g., a food delivery app choosing between Live Activities and notifications).

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Conciseness

The content is mostly efficient, providing concise principles per system experience type without over-explaining concepts Claude already knows. Minor verbosity in some principle descriptions (e.g., 'Deliveries, scores, timers, rides' is helpful but slightly padded), and the 'When to Use' section at the bottom is generic filler.

4 / 5

Actionability

The skill provides design guidance principles and an output format, but lacks concrete, executable examples. There are no code snippets, no specific SwiftUI widget examples, no sample notification payloads, and no concrete before/after design patterns. The guidance is directional rather than copy-paste actionable.

3 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The output format section provides a clear 5-step sequence for producing recommendations, and the 'Questions to Ask' section establishes a discovery phase. However, there are no explicit validation checkpoints or feedback loops. Since this is a design guidance skill (not destructive/batch operations), the missing validation is less critical, but the workflow could still benefit from a review/iteration step.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The reference index table is well-structured with clear one-level-deep references to 9 separate topic files, and the main SKILL.md serves as a proper overview. However, no bundle files were provided to verify the references actually exist, and the related skills section adds useful cross-references. Minor gap: the references paths cannot be validated.

4 / 5

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Description

66%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description effectively enumerates a comprehensive list of Apple system experience components, making it clear what domain it covers. Its main weakness is the lack of an explicit 'Use when...' clause, which limits Claude's ability to know precisely when to select this skill. Adding action verbs describing what the skill does (e.g., 'provides design guidance', 'reviews implementations') would also strengthen it.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause, e.g., 'Use when designing, reviewing, or implementing widgets, live activities, notifications, or other system experience components following Apple guidelines.'

Include synonyms and related terms like 'Human Interface Guidelines', 'WidgetKit', 'ActivityKit', 'push notifications', 'watchOS complications' to improve trigger term coverage.

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Specificity

The description lists several specific system experience components (widgets, live activities, notifications, complications, home screen quick actions, top shelf, watch faces, app clips, app shortcuts), providing good coverage of the domain. However, it describes what it covers rather than concrete actions it performs (e.g., 'provides guidance' vs 'designs' or 'reviews').

4 / 5

Completeness

The 'what' is clear — it provides Apple HIG guidance for specific system experience components. However, there is no explicit 'when' clause (e.g., 'Use when designing or reviewing...'). Per the rubric, a missing 'Use when...' clause caps completeness at 3.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes many natural keywords a developer would use: 'widgets', 'live activities', 'notifications', 'complications', 'home screen quick actions', 'top shelf', 'watch faces', 'app clips', 'app shortcuts', and 'Apple HIG'. Missing some synonyms or variations like 'Human Interface Guidelines', 'WidgetKit', 'ActivityKit', 'push notifications', or platform-specific terms like 'watchOS'.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The description is fairly distinct by scoping to Apple HIG and specifically to system experience components, which differentiates it from general Apple design guidance or general UI skills. Minor overlap risk exists with a broader Apple HIG skill or individual component-specific skills.

4 / 5

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Validation

90%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

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