# Hig Components Menus

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-raintree-technology-agent-starter-hig-components-menus`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [raintree-technology](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/raintree-technology)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Developer Tools](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/developer-tools)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [raintree-technology](https://github.com/raintree-technology)
- **Source:** https://github.com/raintree-technology/agent-starter/tree/main/templates/.claude/skills/hig-components-menus
- **Website:** https://claude.raintree.technology

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-raintree-technology-agent-starter-hig-components-menus
```

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

## About

# Apple HIG: Menus and Buttons

Check for `.claude/apple-design-context.md` before asking questions. Use existing context and only ask for information not already covered.

## Key Principles

1. **Menus should be contextual and predictable.** Standard items in standard locations. Follow platform conventions for ordering and grouping.

2. **Use standard button styles.** System-defined styles communicate affordance and maintain visual consistency. Prefer them over custom designs.

3. **Toolbars for frequent actions.** Most commonly used commands in the toolbar. Rarely used actions belong in menus.

4. **Menu bar is the primary command interface on macOS.** Every command reachable from the menu bar. Toolbars and context menus supplement, not replace.

5. **Context menus for secondary actions.** Right-click or long-press, relevant to the item under the pointer. Never put a command only in a context menu.

6. **Pop-up buttons for mutually exclusive choices.** Select exactly one option from a set.

7. **Pull-down buttons for action lists.** No current selection; they offer a set of commands.

8. **Action buttons consolidate related actions** behind a single icon in toolbars or title bars.

9. **Disclosure controls for progressive disclosure.** Show or hide additional content.

10. **Dock menus: short and focused** on the most useful actions when the app is running.

## Reference Index

| Reference | Topic | Key content |
|---|---|---|
| [menus.md](references/menus.md) | General menu design | Item ordering, grouping, shortcuts |
| [context-menus.md](references/context-menus.md) | Context menus | Right-click, long press, secondary actions |
| [dock-menus.md](references/dock-menus.md) | Dock menus | macOS app-level actions, running state |
| [edit-menus.md](references/edit-menus.md) | Edit menus | Undo, copy, paste, standard items |
| [the-menu-bar.md](references/the-menu-bar.md) | Menu bar | macOS primary command interface, structure |
| [toolbars.md](references/toolbars.md) | Toolbars | Frequent actions, customization, placement |
| [buttons.md](references/buttons.md) | Buttons | System styles, sizing, affordance |
| [action-button.md](references/action-button.md) | Action button | Grouped secondary actions, toolbar use |
| [pop-up-buttons.md](references/pop-up-buttons.md) | Pop-up buttons | Mutually exclusive choice selection |
| [pull-down-buttons.md](references/pull-down-buttons.md) | Pull-down buttons | Action lists, no current selection |
| [disclosure-controls.md](references/disclosure-controls.md) | Disclosure controls | Progressive disclosure, show/hide |

## Output Format

1. **Component recommendation** -- which menu or button type and why.
2. **Visual hierarchy** -- placement, sizing, grouping within the interface.
3. **Platform-specific behavior** across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, visionOS.
4. **Keyboard shortcuts** (macOS) -- standard and custom shortcuts for menu items and toolbar actions.

## Questions to Ask

1. Which platforms?
2. Primary or secondary action?
3. How many actions need to be available?
4. macOS menu bar app?

## Related Skills

- **hig-components-search** -- Search fields, page controls alongside toolbars and menus
- **hig-components-controls** -- Toggles, pickers, segmented controls complementing buttons
- **hig-components-dialogs** -- Alerts, sheets, popovers triggered by menu items or buttons
- **hig-inputs** -- Keyboard shortcuts and pointer interactions with menus and toolbars

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## Source & license

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

- **Author:** [raintree-technology](https://github.com/raintree-technology)
- **Source:** [raintree-technology/agent-starter](https://github.com/raintree-technology/agent-starter)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://claude.raintree.technology

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-raintree-technology-agent-starter-hig-components-menus
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/raintree-technology
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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