Apple's Human Interface Guidelines and design resources, offline — 158 HIG pages pulled from developer.apple.com plus the design kits, fonts, SF Symbols, and Icon Composer links. Use when designing, building, or reviewing UI for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, or visionOS (SwiftUI, UIKit, AppKit); when the user asks what Apple's guidelines say about a component, pattern, or platform; for an app icon, Liquid Glass, Dark Mode, Dynamic Type, or accessibility check; or to find an Apple…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# apple-design
Apple's design guidance as local reference. The agent's job is to **cite**: open the page, quote
the rule, name the system component. Read before you cite; Apple rewrote large parts of the HIG
for Liquid Glass (2025) and reintroduced its design principles (June 2026), so recall is stale.
| Path | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| `references/hig-index.md` | Routing table: every HIG page grouped as Apple groups them, with Apple's one-line summary, platforms, and the date Apple last changed it |
| `references/hig/<slug>.md` | One file per HIG page, Apple's own wording and headings, all six platforms. `## Specifications` sections hold the numbers (type sizes, control sizes, contrast, icon sizes) |
| `references/resources.md` | The rest of developer.apple.com/design: Figma/Sketch kits, fonts, SF Symbols, Icon Composer, bezels, the learning pathway |
| `scripts/pull_hig.py` | Regenerates `hig/` and `hig-index.md` from Apple's site. Not needed for a task |
## Steps
1. **Pin the platform and the artifact.** Which platforms (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS,
visionOS), which framework, and what is in front of you: a screenshot, a mockup, source, a
…
The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260914.bc7bc52, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7325 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag
Source
GitHub
soulmachine/skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7dq3dzbuqer2qpka
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=soulmachine/skills/apple-design
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/32ccdf8d8c0f0e670e0b8644d843821e086d4e8d671beb82866714cf245effaa
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