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Agent Skills: SwiftUI

Use when building, fixing, or improving ANY SwiftUI UI — views, navigation, layout, animations, performance, architecture, gestures, debugging, iOS 26 features.

UncategorizedID: charleswiltgen/axiom/axiom-swiftui

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Skill Metadata

Name
axiom-swiftui
Description
Use when building, fixing, or improving ANY SwiftUI UI — views, navigation, layout, animations, performance, architecture, gestures, debugging, iOS 26 features.

SwiftUI

You MUST use this skill for ANY SwiftUI work including views, state, navigation, layout, animations, architecture, gestures, and debugging.

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Auditors are skills here. Where this router says "Launch some-auditor agent", invoke the matching Codex skill instead — same procedure, no Claude Code agent required.

Available: axiom-analyze-swiftui-performance, axiom-audit-liquid-glass, axiom-audit-swiftui-architecture, axiom-audit-swiftui-layout, axiom-audit-swiftui-nav, axiom-audit-textkit, axiom-audit-ux-flow.

The ones that shell out — builds, tests, simulators, crash symbolication — need shell access to run.

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Quick Reference

| Symptom / Task | Reference | |----------------|-----------| | View not updating | See skills/debugging.md | | View update still broken after debugging | See skills/debugging-diag.md | | Slow previews / building good previews / @Previewable / PreviewModifier / variant matrix | See skills/previews.md | | Preview API reference (#Preview, traits, modes, Development Assets) | See skills/previews-ref.md | | Preview crashes / won't load | See skills/debugging.md (Preview Crashes section) | | Hot reload / live editing / edit the running app on device | See skills/hot-reload.md | | Navigation issues | See skills/nav.md | | Navigation still broken after debugging | See skills/nav-diag.md | | Navigation API reference | See skills/nav-ref.md | | Layout breaks on iPad/rotation | See skills/layout.md | | State lost on resize/rotation (scroll, selection, focus, drafts) | See skills/layout.md (State Survives the Transition) | | Layout API reference | See skills/layout-ref.md | | Performance/lag/slow scroll | See skills/swiftui-performance.md | | Architecture/testability | See skills/architecture.md | | Animation issues | See skills/animation-ref.md | | Stacks/grids/outlines | See skills/containers-ref.md | | Custom containers / List replacement (iOS 18+) | See skills/containers-ref.md Part 7 | | Search implementation | See skills/search-ref.md | | Toolbars, ToolbarItem, sheet button placement, customization | See skills/toolbars.md | | Sheets, detents, popovers, fullScreenCover, presentation adaptation | See skills/presentations.md | | Multi-column Table, sortable/resizable columns (iPad/Mac; collapses to first column in compact) | See axiom-macos (skills/swiftui-differences.md) | | Inspector panel (.inspector — trailing column in regular width, sheet in compact) | See axiom-macos (skills/swiftui-differences.md) | | Gesture conflicts | See skills/gestures.md | | Section index — the vertical A–Z index strip / alphabet scrubber on a list's trailing edge, jump-to-section | See skills/26-ref.md (Section Index) | | List section margins / insets around a Section | See skills/26-ref.md (Section Margins) | | Web content — WebView / WebPage, scroll modifiers, WebView-in-NavigationStack | See skills/26-ref.md (WebView & WebPage) | | iOS 26 features | See skills/26-ref.md |

Non-SwiftUI UI Routes

These topics are part of the broader iOS UI domain but live in separate suites:

UIKit issues

  • Auto Layout conflicts → See axiom-uikit (skills/auto-layout-debugging.md)
  • Animation timing → See axiom-uikit (skills/uikit-animation-debugging.md)
  • SwiftUI ↔ UIKit bridging → See axiom-uikit (skills/uikit-bridging.md)

Design & guidelines

  • Liquid Glass adoption → See axiom-design (skills/liquid-glass.md)
  • SF Symbols → See axiom-design (skills/sf-symbols.md)
  • HIG compliance → See axiom-design (skills/hig.md)
  • Typography → See axiom-design (skills/typography-ref.md)
  • TextKit/rich text → See axiom-uikit (skills/textkit-ref.md)

Other

  • tvOS (focus, remote, text input) → See axiom-swift (skills/tvos.md)
  • App-level composition (root, auth, scenes) → See axiom-design (skills/app-composition.md)
  • Drag/drop, sharing, copy/paste → See axiom-swift (skills/transferable-ref.md)
  • VoiceOver, Dynamic Type → /skill axiom-accessibility
  • UI test flakiness → /skill axiom-testing
  • UX dead ends, dismiss traps → axiom-audit-ux-flow

watchOS-specific patterns

  • Glanceable UI, watch navigation, Smart Stack widgets → See axiom-watchos

Conflict Resolution

axiom-swiftui vs axiom-performance: When UI is slow (e.g., "SwiftUI List slow"):

  1. Try axiom-swiftui FIRST — Domain-specific fixes (LazyVStack, view identity, @State optimization) often solve UI performance in 5 minutes
  2. Only use axiom-performance if domain fixes don't help — Profiling takes longer and may confirm what domain knowledge already knows

Decision Tree

digraph swiftui {
    start [label="SwiftUI issue" shape=ellipse];
    what [label="What's wrong?" shape=diamond];

    start -> what;
    what -> "skills/debugging.md" [label="view not updating"];
    what -> "skills/nav.md" [label="navigation"];
    what -> "skills/swiftui-performance.md" [label="slow/lag"];
    what -> "skills/layout.md" [label="adaptive layout"];
    what -> "skills/containers-ref.md" [label="stacks/grids/outlines"];
    what -> "skills/architecture.md" [label="feature architecture"];
    what -> "skills/animation-ref.md" [label="animations"];
    what -> "skills/gestures.md" [label="gestures"];
    what -> "skills/search-ref.md" [label="search"];
    what -> "skills/toolbars.md" [label="toolbars / sheet buttons"];
    what -> "skills/presentations.md" [label="sheets/detents/popovers"];
    what -> "skills/26-ref.md" [label="iOS 26 features"];
    what -> "skills/previews.md" [label="slow previews / building good previews"];
    what -> "skills/previews-ref.md" [label="preview API reference"];
    what -> "skills/debugging.md" [label="preview crashes / won't load"];
    what -> "skills/hot-reload.md" [label="hot reload / live editing"];
    what -> "axiom-macos (skills/swiftui-differences.md)" [label="Table / .inspector\n(large-window density)"];
    what -> "axiom-uikit (skills/uikit-bridging.md)" [label="UIKit interop"];
    what -> "axiom-design (skills/app-composition.md)" [label="app-level (root, auth)"];
    what -> "axiom-swift (skills/transferable-ref.md)" [label="drag/drop, sharing"];
}

Automated Scanning

  • Architecture audit → axiom-audit-swiftui-architecture
  • Performance scan → axiom-analyze-swiftui-performance
  • Navigation audit → axiom-audit-swiftui-nav
  • Layout audit → axiom-audit-swiftui-layout
  • UX flow audit → axiom-audit-ux-flow
  • Liquid Glass scan → axiom-audit-liquid-glass (detects migration opportunities AND adoption-completeness gaps: variant discipline for media surfaces, glass-on-glass nesting, missing if #available gates, primary-action tinting, .tabRole(.search); scores ADOPTED / PARTIAL / NOT ADOPTED)
  • TextKit scan → axiom-audit-textkit (detects fallback triggers, glyph APIs that corrupt complex scripts, missing Writing Tools wiring, AND architectural gaps like missing fallback observation, SwiftUI wrappers dropping TextKit 2 properties, missing isWritingToolsActive guards; scores MODERN / MIXED / LEGACY)

Anti-Rationalization

| Thought | Reality | |---------|---------| | "Simple SwiftUI layout, no need" | SwiftUI layout has 12 gotchas. skills/layout.md covers all of them. | | "I know how NavigationStack works" | Navigation has state restoration, deep linking, and identity traps. skills/nav.md prevents 2-hour debugging. | | "It's just a view not updating" | View update failures have 4 root causes. skills/debugging.md diagnoses in 5 min. | | "I'll just add .animation()" | Animation issues compound. skills/animation-ref.md has the correct patterns. | | "No architecture needed" | Even small features benefit from separation. skills/architecture.md prevents refactoring debt. | | "I know .searchable" | Search has 6 gotchas. skills/search-ref.md covers all of them. | | "I'll just add a Done button" | Sheets without Cancel break the HIG (updated 2026-03-24). .cancellationAction / .confirmationAction produce HIG-correct placement automatically — skills/toolbars.md Pattern 2 has the rules. | | "A sheet is a sheet, nothing to configure" | Detents, compact adaptation, background interaction, and iOS 18 sizing decide how it behaves across window shapes. skills/presentations.md covers the adaptation traps (landscape sheets silently become full-screen covers). | | "Previews are slow forever, I'll just use the simulator" | Five concrete fixes in skills/previews.md. Rule 4 (auto-refresh off) is 30 seconds and often halves perceived slowness. | | "I'll just write a wrapper view for @State in this preview" | @Previewable @State (Xcode 16+) eliminates that boilerplate. skills/previews-ref.md has the macro signature. | | "I'll just rebuild and relaunch every time" | Hot reload edits the running app in place, state preserved. skills/hot-reload.md has the InjectionNext + Inject setup and the verify-via-xclog loop. |