Swift Stable

Swift Stable

Use this skill as the language-semantic foundation. Respect the project's Swift tools version, supported platforms, strict-concurrency mode, and library-evolution contract.

Before changing code

1. Inspect Package.swift, Xcode project settings when present, CI, and compiler flags.
2. Record Swift tools/compiler version, platforms, target architectures, language mode, strict concurrency, and library evolution.
3. Compile the smallest affected target before diagnosing source semantics.
4. Load swift-package-manager for package topology and swift-concurrency for actor/task behavior.

Language rules

• Choose struct for independent value semantics and class only when shared identity, inheritance, or Objective-C constraints are real requirements.
• Model absence with optionals; avoid force unwraps and forced casts outside proven invariants with explicit failure behavior.
• Prefer exhaustive enums and pattern matching for closed domains.
• Distinguish some Protocol, any Protocol, and generic constraints by ownership, performance, and API evolution needs.
• Preserve Equatable, Hashable, ordering, Codable shape, error, and collection semantics when changing representations.
• Make access control intentional. Public API includes generic constraints, associated types, actor isolation, Sendable, and thrown errors.
• Use copy-on-write or immutable snapshots when mutable storage crosses trust or concurrency boundaries.
• Keep Objective-C bridging at adapters; do not leak implicitly unwrapped optionals into the core model.

Workflow

1. Reproduce compiler or behavioral failure.
2. Classify it as optionality, ownership, generic/existential modeling, overload resolution, ABI, or configuration.
3. Make the minimum type-safe semantic correction.
4. Add a regression test for observable behavior.
5. Run formatting policy, build, tests, and target-specific gates.

swift build
swift test

Never silently raise platform deployment targets or tools version.