Foundation Skill for Claude
Foundation framework skills — AttributedString patterns for rich text formatting, alignment, selection, and SwiftUI integration. Use when working with styled text or AttributedString APIs.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills --skill foundationThe instruction itself
4 sections, as written by the authorFoundation Skills
Foundation framework patterns for Apple platforms.
When This Skill Activates
Use this skill when the user:
- Works with AttributedString (formatting, attributes, runs)
- Needs rich text alignment, selection, or styling logic
- Integrates attributed text with SwiftUI
Available Skills
Paths are relative to THIS file's directory — skills run with cwd set to the
user's project, so resolve each path from this SKILL.md's own location.
| Skill | Read | Covers |
|-------|------|--------|
| attributed-string | attributed-string/SKILL.md | AttributedString formatting, alignment, selection, SwiftUI integration |
How to Route
- Read
attributed-string/SKILL.md(relative to this file) plus any reference files it lists. - Apply the guidance to the user's code. For TextEditor-based rich text editing UI, see also
../swiftui/text-editing/SKILL.md.
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How to use it
Take rshankras/foundation from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the
same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.