# Apple Design Navigation

> Choose or review navigation and search structures for Apple apps, including tabs, sidebars, split views, toolbars, hierarchical browsers, and search placement and scope.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-carlosziegler-apple-hig-skills-apple-design-navigation`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [CarlosZiegler](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/carlosziegler)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Search](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/search)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [CarlosZiegler](https://github.com/CarlosZiegler)
- **Source:** https://github.com/CarlosZiegler/apple-hig-skills/tree/main/skills/apple-design-navigation

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-carlosziegler-apple-hig-skills-apple-design-navigation
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Apple Navigation and Search

## Apply the skill

Map destinations and content hierarchy before selecting a container. Distinguish a top-level destination from a command, a local filter, and a detail view. Select the reference for the proposed container and inspect the target platform section.

Track selection, per-destination navigation state, search scope, and the return path. Define how the structure adapts when a window narrows or a sidebar disappears. Preserve context during these transitions rather than returning people to the root.

In a review, trace representative tasks and flag ambiguous location, inaccessible destinations, inconsistent Back behavior, and disappearing navigation. For current iPad tabs, iOS search placement, and toolbar groupings, consult the live source before relying on older layout conventions.

## Topic references

Select the topic that matches the design decision; do not load this entire list by default.

- [Tab bars](references/tab-bars.md)
- [Sidebars](references/sidebars.md)
- [Split views](references/split-views.md)
- [Toolbars](references/toolbars.md)
- [Search fields](references/search-fields.md)
- [Searching](references/searching.md)
- [Tab views](references/tab-views.md)
- [Page controls](references/page-controls.md)
- [Path controls](references/path-controls.md)
- [Column views](references/column-views.md)
- [Outline views](references/outline-views.md)

## Source use

These references are original operational summaries of Apple’s public HIG, checked on 2026-09-08. They are guidance for design decisions, not a reproduced manual or a guarantee of App Store acceptance.

Read only the topic references relevant to the current task. Each links to the full official page. Consult that page for exact specifications, platform exceptions, assets, and version-sensitive behavior; use current official developer documentation for APIs and availability. If live documentation is unavailable, state the snapshot date and identify assumptions instead of inventing current requirements.

The user’s product goals, selected framework, and authorized scope remain controlling. Distinguish a source recommendation from a hard platform requirement and from your own proposed implementation.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [CarlosZiegler](https://github.com/CarlosZiegler)
- **Source:** [CarlosZiegler/apple-hig-skills](https://github.com/CarlosZiegler/apple-hig-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-carlosziegler-apple-hig-skills-apple-design-navigation
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/carlosziegler
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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