Macos Design Guidelines includes 46 code blocks for direct copy-paste. At roughly 4,174 words the SKILL.md is on the longer end of the catalog distribution.
Macos Design Guidelines sits in the General category under the design-creative sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.
These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.
Mac apps serve power users who expect deep keyboard control, persistent menu bars, resizable multi-window layouts, and tight system integration. These guidelines codify Apple's HIG into actionable rules with SwiftUI and AppKit examples.
Macos Design Guidelines is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the design-creative sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/macos-design-guidelines/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when building macOS apps with SwiftUI or AppKit, implementing menu bars, toolbars, window management, or keyboard shortcuts. Triggers on tasks involving Mac UI, desktop apps, or Mac Catalyst.
The Macos Design Guidelines Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 118,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/macos-design-guidelines curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/macos-design-guidelines/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/macos-design-guidelines/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/macos-design-guidelines/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/macos-design-guidelines/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\macos-design-guidelines\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/macos-design-guidelines/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Macos Design Guidelines is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{macos-design-guidelines-2026,
author = {namuan},
title = {Macos Design Guidelines [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/macos-design-guidelines/}
}Browse all General skills in the ClaudSkills registry, or explore these other picks from the same category:
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