Foundation

Foundation is a Frontend skill for Claude Code, published by rshankras in claude-code-apple-skills.

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Install Foundation

Copy Foundation into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/tree/main/skills/foundation ~/.claude/skills/foundation

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/foundation/SKILL.md in rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/foundation
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Frontend — 567 skills

What Foundation does

Foundation covers AttributedString formatting, alignment, selection, and SwiftUI integration on Apple platforms. Use it when working with styled text or attributed text APIs.

Foundation is cataloged under Frontend on DirSkills. Foundation comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-tools, anthropic, app-store and apple.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Foundation 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

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Foundation

What else does rshankras publish alongside Foundation?
Foundation is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Ad Attribution, App Description Writer and App Store Optimization. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Foundation does, and is maintained by rshankras in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills page.
How does Foundation compare to other Frontend skills?
Foundation ranks #429 by stars among the 567 Frontend skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Angular Developer, Android Clean Architecture and Accessibility. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Foundation against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.