apple-hig-sidebars SKILL.md skillA
apple-hig-sidebars 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-sidebars@git:20260620.d4b3079Pins git:20260620.d4b3079 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-sidebars/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260620.d4b3079, committed Jun 20, 2026
- Size
- 6,852 bytes
- Repository stars
- 11
- License
- MIT
Use when designing, reviewing, or implementing a sidebar for an Apple-platform app — top-level navigation only, grouped sections, NavigationSplitView, consistent SF Symbols, and safe compact-width behavior.
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 Sidebars
Design and review the sidebar as the map of the app: top-level navigation only, grouped into calm sections, paired with split navigation, and safe when it collapses on compact widths. Reach for this on macOS, iPadOS, SwiftUI `NavigationSplitView`, AppKit source lists, UIKit split views, and productivity apps with projects, files, agents, notes, skills, tasks, or dashboards.
## Core rule
```
Sidebar = top-level navigation
Toolbar = current-screen actions
Command palette = fast global commands
Inspector = selected-item details
```
A sidebar is the map of the app. It is not a dashboard and not a control panel.
## Apple-style principles
### 1. Use sidebars for top-level navigation
Good sidebar items:
- Home
- Inbox
- Projects
- Tasks
- Files
- Agents
- Skills
- Notes
- Reports
- Settings
Avoid putting these in the sidebar:
- One-off buttons
- Deep detail content
- Destructive actions
- Dashboard widgets
- Status timelines
- Large progress cards
- Long descriptions
### 2. Pair the sidebar with split navigation
Preferred SwiftUI structure:
```swift
NavigationSplitView {
SidebarView(selection: $selection)
} content: {
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add aka-kika/akakika-skills/apple-hig-sidebars@sha256:8c24baedc1b611faThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260620.d4b3079, 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_r2hv477zrxypjcpb)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 20, 2026.
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 (6852 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
aka-kika/akakika-skills · 11 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-12 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_r2hv477zrxypjcpb GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aka-kika/akakika-skills/apple-hig-sidebars GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8c24baedc1b611fa605243fe406f3722dbd64cfd53becdd720aba15f777104f0
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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.