sf-symbols SKILL.md skillA
sf-symbols from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/sf-symbols@git:20260716.32566aaPins git:20260716.32566aa in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills
- Path
skills/design/sf-symbols/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260716.32566aa, committed Jul 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 13, 2026
- Size
- 6,029 bytes
- Repository stars
- 876
- License
- MIT
SF Symbols end-to-end — choosing and configuring the 7,000+ system symbols (rendering modes, variable color/draw, gradients), authoring custom symbols that interpolate across weights, and the animation preset vocabulary. Use when picking iconography, building custom symbols, animating symbol state changes, or rendering values as symbols.
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
# SF Symbols
Over 7,000 system symbols with free platform consistency, Dynamic Type alignment, and
accessibility — the default answer to "we need an icon." This skill covers using them well,
authoring custom ones that behave like system ones, and the animation vocabulary.
(Animation *implementation patterns* live in `design/animation-patterns` → symbol-effects.md;
this skill owns selection, authoring, and rendering.)
## When This Skill Activates
- Choosing icons for tabs, toolbars, buttons, widgets ("should this be an SF Symbol?" — usually yes)
- A needed glyph doesn't exist → authoring a custom symbol
- Rendering a changing value (signal, progress, volume) as a symbol
- Symbol state changes that should animate (mute/unmute, play/pause)
## Using system symbols
- Prefer symbols over custom art for tab/toolbar icons — recognizability across the platform
for free, and they scale with text styles (`imageScale`, weights match adjacent text).
- Keep platform-conventional symbols conventional: share, trash, search mean one thing each.
- **Rendering modes**: Monochrome · Hierarchical (one color, opacity-derived depth) ·
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/sf-symbols@sha256:41df988a2ee6f564The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260716.32566aa, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 13, 2026 and Jul 16, 2026, about one every 3 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260716.32566aa latest | 2026-07-16 | 32566aa | 6,029 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260713.6ec67d1 | 2026-07-13 | 6ec67d1 | 5,981 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6029 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
rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills · 876 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-09 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_c7532w5uqsnmejqa GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/sf-symbols GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/41df988a2ee6f56473f8fbbaf996040e7a17a4fb79599e2f02c10dc0a224f468
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.