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push-notifications

Implement, review, or debug push notifications in iOS/macOS apps — local notifications, remote (APNs) notifications, rich notifications, notification actions, silent pushes, and notification service/content extensions. Use when working with UNUserNotificationCenter, registering for remote notifications, handling notification payloads, setting up notification categories and actions, creating rich notification content, or debugging notification delivery. Also use when working with alerts, badges, sounds, background pushes, or user notification permissions in Swift apps.

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The canonical home for this skill is dpearson2699/swift-ios-skills

SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

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

A strong, highly actionable reference: nearly all guidance is executable Swift or exact payload/header contracts, sequencing is clear, and the bundle split into two substantial reference files is well signaled. The main costs are triplicated contract statements across Correction Reviews, Common Mistakes, and the Review Checklist, and deep implementation detail inlined in SKILL.md that belongs in the reference files.

Suggestions

Collapse 'Correction Reviews' into a short pointer (or merge it with 'Common Mistakes') instead of restating the token, background-push, and service-extension contracts that are repeated nearly verbatim in 'Common Mistakes' and the 'Review Checklist'.

Move the full deep-link router and category/action registration code into references/notification-patterns.md, keeping only the minimal inline snippet and the contract notes in SKILL.md.

Add one explicit validation step to the core workflow (e.g., confirm token upload succeeded and log/verify delivery via .apns files or simctl push), turning the Review Checklist into a true validate-and-fix feedback loop.

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Conciseness

The body is mostly lean, executable Swift and API contracts rather than concept explanations, but the same contracts are stated three times — the 'Correction Reviews' opening paragraph, 'Common Mistakes', and the 'Review Checklist' each restate token-upload rules, silent-push headers, and service-extension handler rules in near-identical wording. The Correction Reviews paragraph in particular is a dense multi-clause wall of text that could be collapsed into the sections it previews.

3 / 5

Actionability

Nearly every section is anchored by complete, copy-paste-ready Swift (permission request, AppDelegate adaptor with hex token conversion, trigger types, delegate with willPresent/didReceive switches, category registration, grouping) plus concrete APNs JSON payloads with the exact header/key names. The only stub is the REPLY_ACTION 'break' with a comment, which is an intentional pointer rather than pseudocode.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The setup sequence is clearly ordered (set delegate at launch, register categories, request authorization in context, registerForRemoteNotifications independent of alert status) and the Review Checklist gives verification checkpoints. It falls short of a 5 because there is no inline validate-and-retry loop — e.g., no 'verify token upload succeeded' or delivery-debugging feedback cycle (debugging is deferred to references/notification-patterns.md) — leaving minor validation gaps.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Structure is good: a Contents TOC, well-delineated sections, and two clearly signaled one-level-deep references (references/notification-patterns.md, references/rich-notifications.md) that both exist and carry the deep material (full AppDelegate wiring, extension examples). It is not a 5 because the main file still inlines substantial deep content — the full deep-link router, complete category/action registration, and grouping code — that belongs at the same depth as the referenced material, making SKILL.md longer than an overview warrants.

4 / 5

Total

16

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20

Passed

Description

100%Weight 40%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.

An exemplary description: concrete capabilities, explicit and redundant 'Use when' trigger clauses covering both API-level and plain-language phrasings, a clearly bounded iOS/macOS niche, and third-person voice throughout. Every clause is load-bearing with no fluff or over-claiming.

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Specificity

The description lists multiple concrete actions ('Implement, review, or debug push notifications') and comprehensively enumerates the domain's capabilities: 'local notifications, remote (APNs) notifications, rich notifications, notification actions, silent pushes, and notification service/content extensions'. Coverage matches the anchor for multiple specific concrete actions with comprehensive coverage; nothing is generic or padded, and it stays in third-person voice.

5 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers 'what' (implement/review/debug with a full capability enumeration) and 'when' with two explicit trigger clauses: 'Use when working with UNUserNotificationCenter, registering for remote notifications, handling notification payloads...' and 'Also use when working with alerts, badges, sounds, background pushes, or user notification permissions in Swift apps.' This mirrors the anchor that clearly and explicitly answers both what and when with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Trigger terms are comprehensive and include natural synonyms users would actually say: 'push notifications', 'silent pushes', 'background pushes', 'alerts, badges, sounds', 'notification permissions', plus API-level terms like 'UNUserNotificationCenter', 'registering for remote notifications', and 'notification payloads'. Both plain-language and technical phrasings are covered, matching the anchor for comprehensive natural-term coverage including synonyms.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The description is scoped to a clear niche — iOS/macOS push notifications via UserNotifications/APNs — with distinct triggers (APNs, UNUserNotificationCenter, device-notification permissions). It does not claim adjacent domains (Live Activities, VoIP, App Clips), so overlap risk with sibling skills is minimal, matching the clear-niche anchor.

5 / 5

Total

20

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20

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Validation

100%

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository

dpearson2699/swift-ios-skills

Path

skills/push-notifications/SKILL.md

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