Apple Design
This is an OMH apple-design workflow skill, projected for Agent Skills hosts (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, opencode, OpenClaw, pi).
Why This Exists
apple-design turns Apple UI design, review, and improvement requests into a platform-aware brief that respects native and web differences while preserving OMH's existing implementation and evidence owners.
Do Not Use When
- The request is generic frontend design, accessibility, screenshot QA, image-card work, or material guidance without an Apple-specific phrase or explicit
apple-design invocation; use the existing specialist lane.
- The message concerns Apple fruit, stock, support, a glass database, material science, or unrelated Swift/macOS discussion.
- The user needs a conformance, accessibility PASS, or visual PASS claim without supplied and observed evidence.
Examples
Good example:
- Prompt: Review this iPad checkout against Apple HIG and hand the concrete fixes to the frontend and accessibility owners.
- Expected behavior: Prepare apple_design_brief/v1 with applicable evidence, findings, platform-aware remediation, and the existing owner routes.
- Why: The request specifies an Apple platform and asks for a review plus downstream remediation without treating the brief as implementation or a verdict.
Bad example:
- Prompt: Call our generic WCAG screenshot check Apple-certified.
- Expected behavior: Keep the Apple-specific verdict unavailable and route generic accessibility or rendered evidence to the existing specialist.
- Why: A generic check without applicable Apple evidence cannot establish platform compliance or certification.
Completion Checklist
- Target, convention, state, and evidence are explicit.
- Each direction or finding names evidence, source applicability, owner, and missing verification; product visuals name original art direction.
- Implementation remains with the selected coding owner; accessibility and visual completion remain not_observed until their existing lanes record evidence.
Recovery Notes
- If the platform/version, convention, or target state is missing, ask for it before treating a guideline as applicable.
- If no supplied screen or code exists, prepare the brief and mark visual status not_observed rather than inferring a rendered result.
Use When
Use when an iOS, iPadOS, macOS, Apple-inspired web surface, or explicit Apple-style product visual needs an Apple-aware direction, evidence-backed review, or improvement brief before implementation or visual verification.
Strong routing signals: `apple-design`, `apple design`, `apple ui design`, `apple hig`, `human interface guidelines`, `ios design guidelines`, `macos app design`, `apple-inspired web`, `liquid glass review`, `liquid glass design`, `apple 3d hero`, `apple-style 3d`, `apple product render`, `apple product visual`, `apple studio lighting`, `apple-style landing visual`, `apple product page`
Catalog Metadata
Category: materials
Phase: apple-design
Quality tier: apple-design-gated
Reasoning demand: standard
Quality bar:
- Start with mode, target, convention, and available evidence; choose directions before visuals when open.
- Load
references/platform-foundations.md, references/materials-and-accessibility.md, references/product-visual-production.md, references/web-production-libraries.md, and references/review-playbook.md for their named boundaries.
- For product work, use reference -> actual production -> same-subject comparison -> revision. Motion needs frames, video, or browser evidence and a reduced-motion alternative; do not award an Apple score.
- Findings name evidence, impact, source/applicability, fix, owner, and missing check; route implementation to the selected owner and proof to accessibility-audit or visual-qa.
Required inputs:
- mode: design, review, or improve
- visual target: Apple marketing/product visual, native Apple application, or Apple-inspired web UI
- target, surface/state, supplied evidence, and available execution constraints
Expected outputs:
- apple_design_brief/v1
- apple_visual_direction/v1
- apple_design_finding/v1 with severity, location/evidence, impact, source/applicability, fix, owner, and missing checks
- two to four design directions before visual work when direction is open
- composed remediation route to frontend, design-quality-gate, accessibility-audit, visual-qa, or award-bar-score
Artifact expectations:
- prepared Apple design brief with observations and hypotheses distinguished
- prepared product-visual handoff when no authorized execution path exists
- visual status not_observed when no supplied screen, capture, or rendered surface exists
- no Apple certification, accessibility PASS, visual PASS, or implementation claim from a prepared brief
Safety rules:
- Choose one target: marketing/product visual, native Apple application, or Apple-inspired web UI; do not substitute marketing or web effects for native controls/Liquid Glass.
- For native targets use current HIG/system controls and platform foundations; macOS has no Dynamic Type. For web, use semantic responsive UI with reduced-motion/transparency and opaque fallback.
- Product visuals use original geometry, camera, material, light, palette, scale, copy-safe space, and no Apple assets; see the production reference for renderer choices.
- Only call a result generated, rendered, or animated with matching actual evidence. Without an authorized execution path, prepare a handoff and name the missing boundary.
- Load the web-library reference only for explicit Apple product work; confirm existing-project compatibility and license posture. Do not install, vendor, fetch, or call it native Apple; generic GSAP/logo work stays in its existing lane.
- Review supplied evidence; prepared guidance is not implementation, accessibility/visual PASS, or certification.
- Before output and before approval, classify native, web, or marketing intent; use
apple-design only for the explicit specialist request.
- If current source guidance applies, keep its conditional 35% bright-background note; it is not universal. When no renderer is available, do not claim a result; while work is prepared, it is not observed.
- Never treat web glass as native, never substitute a still for motion, and use only actual evidence after production; without it, the result is not PASS.
- While evidence is missing, use only a prepared handoff; it is not execution and not a PASS.
Runtime Evidence
Use the current host's own tools and subagent/task mechanism when available;
otherwise run the same lanes sequentially or name the unavailable capability.
A prepared plan, handoff, checklist, or skill installation is not execution,
review, CI, merge-readiness, or merge evidence. Report actual tool results or
not_observed / not_available; never invent dispatch or host accounting.
Treat supplied context as advisory, not proof of hidden memory reads or writes.
State scope, constraints, verification, and the stop condition before work.
Supporting paths are relative to this skill directory; sibling skill paths are
relative to its parent. Resolve them from the host-provided skill base directory
({baseDir} on hosts that provide it), never a hardcoded install location.
A named workflow not installed here is unavailable, not permission to emulate
its host-specific capabilities. Verify through the real surface before done.
1---2name: omh-apple-design-23description: [omh] Hermes Apple design workflow: prepare native Apple UI or Apple marketing product-visual direction, review, and improvement briefs with evidence-backed remediation handoffs. Use when the user says: apple-design, apple design, apple ui design, apple hig, human interface guidelines, ios design guidelines, macos app design, apple-inspired web.4---56# Apple Design78This is an OMH `apple-design` workflow skill, projected for Agent Skills hosts (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, opencode, OpenClaw, pi).910## Why This Exists1112`apple-design` turns Apple UI design, review, and improvement requests into a platform-aware brief that respects native and web differences while preserving OMH's existing implementation and evidence owners.1314## Do Not Use When1516- The request is generic frontend design, accessibility, screenshot QA, image-card work, or material guidance without an Apple-specific phrase or explicit `apple-design` invocation; use the existing specialist lane.17- The message concerns Apple fruit, stock, support, a glass database, material science, or unrelated Swift/macOS discussion.18- The user needs a conformance, accessibility PASS, or visual PASS claim without supplied and observed evidence.1920## Examples2122Good example:2324- Prompt: Review this iPad checkout against Apple HIG and hand the concrete fixes to the frontend and accessibility owners.25- Expected behavior: Prepare apple_design_brief/v1 with applicable evidence, findings, platform-aware remediation, and the existing owner routes.26- Why: The request specifies an Apple platform and asks for a review plus downstream remediation without treating the brief as implementation or a verdict.2728Bad example:2930- Prompt: Call our generic WCAG screenshot check Apple-certified.31- Expected behavior: Keep the Apple-specific verdict unavailable and route generic accessibility or rendered evidence to the existing specialist.32- Why: A generic check without applicable Apple evidence cannot establish platform compliance or certification.3334## Completion Checklist3536- Target, convention, state, and evidence are explicit.37- Each direction or finding names evidence, source applicability, owner, and missing verification; product visuals name original art direction.38- Implementation remains with the selected coding owner; accessibility and visual completion remain not_observed until their existing lanes record evidence.3940## Recovery Notes4142- If the platform/version, convention, or target state is missing, ask for it before treating a guideline as applicable.43- If no supplied screen or code exists, prepare the brief and mark visual status not_observed rather than inferring a rendered result.44454647## Use When4849Use when an iOS, iPadOS, macOS, Apple-inspired web surface, or explicit Apple-style product visual needs an Apple-aware direction, evidence-backed review, or improvement brief before implementation or visual verification.5051 Strong routing signals: `apple-design`, `apple design`, `apple ui design`, `apple hig`, `human interface guidelines`, `ios design guidelines`, `macos app design`, `apple-inspired web`, `liquid glass review`, `liquid glass design`, `apple 3d hero`, `apple-style 3d`, `apple product render`, `apple product visual`, `apple studio lighting`, `apple-style landing visual`, `apple product page`5253## Catalog Metadata5455Category: `materials`56Phase: `apple-design`57Quality tier: `apple-design-gated`58Reasoning demand: `standard`5960Quality bar:6162- Start with mode, target, convention, and available evidence; choose directions before visuals when open.63- Load `references/platform-foundations.md`, `references/materials-and-accessibility.md`, `references/product-visual-production.md`, `references/web-production-libraries.md`, and `references/review-playbook.md` for their named boundaries.64- For product work, use reference -> actual production -> same-subject comparison -> revision. Motion needs frames, video, or browser evidence and a reduced-motion alternative; do not award an Apple score.65- Findings name evidence, impact, source/applicability, fix, owner, and missing check; route implementation to the selected owner and proof to accessibility-audit or visual-qa.6667Required inputs:6869- mode: design, review, or improve70- visual target: Apple marketing/product visual, native Apple application, or Apple-inspired web UI71- target, surface/state, supplied evidence, and available execution constraints7273Expected outputs:7475- apple_design_brief/v176- apple_visual_direction/v177- apple_design_finding/v1 with severity, location/evidence, impact, source/applicability, fix, owner, and missing checks78- two to four design directions before visual work when direction is open79- composed remediation route to frontend, design-quality-gate, accessibility-audit, visual-qa, or award-bar-score8081Artifact expectations:8283- prepared Apple design brief with observations and hypotheses distinguished84- prepared product-visual handoff when no authorized execution path exists85- visual status not_observed when no supplied screen, capture, or rendered surface exists86- no Apple certification, accessibility PASS, visual PASS, or implementation claim from a prepared brief8788Safety rules:8990- Choose one target: marketing/product visual, native Apple application, or Apple-inspired web UI; do not substitute marketing or web effects for native controls/Liquid Glass.91- For native targets use current HIG/system controls and platform foundations; macOS has no Dynamic Type. For web, use semantic responsive UI with reduced-motion/transparency and opaque fallback.92- Product visuals use original geometry, camera, material, light, palette, scale, copy-safe space, and no Apple assets; see the production reference for renderer choices.93- Only call a result generated, rendered, or animated with matching actual evidence. Without an authorized execution path, prepare a handoff and name the missing boundary.94- Load the web-library reference only for explicit Apple product work; confirm existing-project compatibility and license posture. Do not install, vendor, fetch, or call it native Apple; generic GSAP/logo work stays in its existing lane.95- Review supplied evidence; prepared guidance is not implementation, accessibility/visual PASS, or certification.96- Before output and before approval, classify native, web, or marketing intent; use `apple-design` only for the explicit specialist request.97- If current source guidance applies, keep its conditional 35% bright-background note; it is not universal. When no renderer is available, do not claim a result; while work is prepared, it is not observed.98- Never treat web glass as native, never substitute a still for motion, and use only actual evidence after production; without it, the result is not PASS.99- While evidence is missing, use only a prepared handoff; it is not execution and not a PASS.100101## Runtime Evidence102103Use the current host's own tools and subagent/task mechanism when available;104otherwise run the same lanes sequentially or name the unavailable capability.105A prepared plan, handoff, checklist, or skill installation is not execution,106review, CI, merge-readiness, or merge evidence. Report actual tool results or107`not_observed` / `not_available`; never invent dispatch or host accounting.108Treat supplied context as advisory, not proof of hidden memory reads or writes.109State scope, constraints, verification, and the stop condition before work.110Supporting paths are relative to this skill directory; sibling skill paths are111relative to its parent. Resolve them from the host-provided skill base directory112(`{baseDir}` on hosts that provide it), never a hardcoded install location.113A named workflow not installed here is unavailable, not permission to emulate114its host-specific capabilities. Verify through the real surface before done.