apple-hig-command-palette SKILL.md skillA

apple-hig-command-palette from aka-kika/akakika-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add aka-kika/akakika-skills/apple-hig-command-palette@git:20260909.fbab501

Pins git:20260909.fbab501 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-command-palette/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20260909.fbab501, committed Sep 9, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 20, 2026
Size
10,550 bytes
Repository stars
11
License
MIT

Use when designing, reviewing, or implementing a command-palette / ⌘K layer for an Apple-platform app — keyboard-first global search, ranked and grouped results, native floating panel, and protected destructive commands.

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 Command Palette

Design and review a native-feeling ⌘K command palette: a fast, keyboard-first layer on top of the app for global search, quick actions, and jump-to navigation — not a replacement for the sidebar. Reach for this for keyboard-first workflows, global search, quick actions, jump-to navigation, task launching, skill running, project switching, prompt execution, and power-user workflows.

Apple does not treat “command palette” as a single standard control like `NavigationSplitView` or `.toolbar`, so this skill adapts Apple-native patterns: menu commands, keyboard shortcuts, Spotlight-style search, SF Symbols, accessibility, and calm macOS interaction design.

## Core rule

```
Sidebar = visible navigation
Toolbar = current-screen actions
Inspector = selected-item details
Command Palette = fast global control
```

The command palette is not a replacement for the sidebar. It is a fast layer on top of the app.

A good command palette answers:

```
What do you want to do?
Where do you want to go?
What do you want to find?
```

## When to use a command palette
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add aka-kika/akakika-skills/apple-hig-command-palette@sha256:d38aba2ce91b69f7

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260909.fbab501, 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.

Badge

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Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 20, 2026 and Sep 9, 2026, about one every 41 days.

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git:20260909.fbab501 latest2026-09-09 fbab501 10,550 BA view · diff
git:20260620.bb2e91d2026-06-20 bb2e91d 22,756 BA view · diff
git:20260620.d4b30792026-06-20 d4b3079 22,804 BA view

Audit of the latest version

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 (10550 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

aka-kika/akakika-skills · 11 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-12 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_r2juqf7atcuus7ob
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aka-kika/akakika-skills/apple-hig-command-palette
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d38aba2ce91b69f775bea679ee00cb21dc52f979711747af4089730125be2963

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.

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