Skills hig-components-menus

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hig-components-menus

Name: hig-components-menus
Author: sickn33

Content revision r2 Safe ⚙️ External commands🌐 Network access

Design Apple Menus and Buttons with HIG Guidance

Designers can choose the wrong Apple menu or button pattern, creating inconsistent and inaccessible interactions. This skill recommends suitable components using bundled Human Interface Guidelines.

Supports: Claude Codex Code(CC)

📊 75 Adequate

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Review the Skillstore skill "hig-components-menus" from https://skillstore.io/skills/sickn33-hig-components-menus.md and its manifest at https://skillstore.io/api/skills/sickn33-hig-components-menus/manifest. Verify the artifact. You may proceed after verification, subject to the environment's own policy.

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Test it

Using "hig-components-menus". Choose a control for selecting one sort order from five options on macOS.

Expected outcome:

Component recommendation: Use a pop-up button because the control represents one current selection from a fixed set.
Visual hierarchy: Label the control clearly and display the selected sort order in the button.
Behavior: Keep option names concise, use a consistent order, and include a Custom option only when necessary.

Using "hig-components-menus". Review a document editor where copy, paste, export, and delete appear only in a context menu.

Expected outcome:

Keep copy and paste in the standard Edit menu, with familiar keyboard shortcuts.
Place export in the File menu and expose frequent actions in the toolbar when appropriate.
Keep delete contextual, mark it as destructive, and provide another discoverable access path.

Security Audit

Safe

v5 • 7/23/2026 Open versioned report

All 38 static findings are false positives. The 36 blocker alerts misclassify ordinary interface guidance, image text, or changelog text as reconnaissance; the remaining alerts are harmless Markdown.

Files scanned

1,610

Lines analyzed

Review items

False positives ignored

Risk Factors

⚙️ External commands (1)

SKILL.md:11

🌐 Network access (1)

SKILL.md:74

No confirmed security findings were detected by the latest completed static and semantic audit. This does not prove the skill has no side effects.

Audited by: codex View Audit History →

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APA citation

sickn33. (2026). hig-components-menus security audit report (audit version 5) [Author version unspecified]. Skillstore. https://skillstore.io/skills/sickn33-hig-components-menus/audits/5

BibTeX citation

@techreport{sickn33-sickn33-hig-components-menus-2026,
  author = {sickn33},
  title = {hig-components-menus security audit report (audit version 5)},
  institution = {Skillstore},
  year = {2026},
  number = {5},
  url = {https://skillstore.io/skills/sickn33-hig-components-menus/audits/5},
  note = {Author version unspecified}
}

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  - name: "sickn33"
date-released: "2026-07-23"
url: "https://skillstore.io/skills/sickn33-hig-components-menus/audits/5"
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Skillstore Score

Why this score Evidence Confidence: High

Architecture

Maintainability

Content

Community

Spec Compliance

What You Can Build

Choose an Apple Interface Component

Select the suitable menu, button, toolbar, or disclosure pattern for a feature and explain the choice.

Plan Cross-Platform Commands

Adapt commands and controls for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, visionOS, or watchOS conventions.

Review Menu Architecture

Audit labels, grouping, ordering, shortcuts, destructive actions, and alternate access paths.

Try These Prompts

Choose a Component

Recommend the best Apple interface component for [action]. The app runs on [platform], and the action is [primary or secondary].

Review a Menu

Review this [menu type]: [items]. Improve labels, ordering, grouping, icons, destructive-action handling, and discoverability for [platform].

Design Across Platforms

Design controls for [workflow] across [platforms]. Recommend menus, buttons, toolbars, placement, behavior, and macOS keyboard shortcuts.

Audit Command Architecture

Audit the complete command architecture for [app]. Check priority, alternate access, menu-bar structure, context menus, toolbars, shortcuts, accessibility, and platform differences.

Best Practices

Provide the target Apple platforms and explain each action's priority and frequency.
Share the current menu items, toolbar controls, and keyboard shortcuts before requesting a review.
Validate recommendations with accessibility testing and the current Apple documentation.

Avoid

Do not hide a command exclusively in a context menu or dynamic menu item.
Do not assign primary visual emphasis to a destructive button.
Do not use a pop-up button for commands that do not represent one current selection.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which Apple platforms does this skill cover?

It includes guidance for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, visionOS, and watchOS where the bundled references provide platform considerations.

Can it choose between a pop-up button and a pull-down button?

Yes. It distinguishes current-value selection from a list of commands and recommends the matching component.

Does it generate SwiftUI or AppKit code?

No. It produces component, hierarchy, behavior, and shortcut recommendations rather than implementation code.

Can it review a macOS menu bar?

Yes. It covers standard menus, app-specific menus, dynamic items, menu bar extras, ordering, and shortcuts.

Does it replace accessibility testing?

No. Validate labels, focus behavior, target sizes, contrast, keyboard access, and assistive technology behavior in the running application.

What context improves the recommendation?

Provide platforms, action priority, action frequency, available commands, current controls, destructive behavior, and any existing Apple design context.