apple-hig-empty-states SKILL.md skillA
apple-hig-empty-states from aka-kika/akakika-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add aka-kika/akakika-skills/apple-hig-empty-states@git:20260620.ea86eb3Pins git:20260620.ea86eb3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- aka-kika/akakika-skills
- Path
skills/apple-hig/apple-hig-empty-states/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260620.ea86eb3, committed Jun 20, 2026
- Size
- 5,631 bytes
- Repository stars
- 11
- License
- MIT
Use when designing or implementing empty, first-run, no-result, offline, error, or waiting states in Apple-platform apps — every empty state explains what is missing, why it matters, and what to do next.
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 HIG Empty States Turn blank screens into useful empty, first-run, no-result, offline, and error states that explain what is missing and what to do next. Reach for it whenever a view has no data, no selection, no results, no connection, or a failed load. ## Purpose Use this skill when designing or implementing empty, first-run, no-result, offline, error, or waiting states in Apple-platform apps. Use for: - No projects - No tasks - No active runs - No skills - No notes - No reports - No selected item - No search results - First launch - Offline/local model not running - Permission missing - Failed load ## Core rule ``` An empty state must explain what is missing, why it matters, and what to do next. ``` A blank screen is not an empty state. ## Empty state formula ``` Icon Title Short explanation Primary action Optional secondary action ``` Example: ``` No Active Runs The agent is not working on anything right now. Start a task or open the queue. [New Task] [Open Queue] ``` ## When to use this skill Use this skill when a view has no data, no selection, no permissions, no connection, no results, or the user is seeing the app for the first time. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add aka-kika/akakika-skills/apple-hig-empty-states@sha256:948a7f3357c8385eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260620.ea86eb3, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_pof7e72hdxdu5chv)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 20, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- 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
aka-kika/akakika-skills · 11 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-12 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pof7e72hdxdu5chv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aka-kika/akakika-skills/apple-hig-empty-states GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/948a7f3357c8385ee9b7e87119b0441d027f33cc81869440fc0a59cde61ac141
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