A Claude Code Skill for SwiftUI Build and UI Verification
The single highest-leverage practice in agentic iOS coding, as of mid-2026, is the one Anthropic’s Best Practices for Claude Code names directly: “Give Claude a way to verify its work.” On the iOS side, that practice has been hard to apply. I have built a Claude Code skill called ios-build-verify that makes it cheap.
An iOS Port of Anthropic’s frontend-design Skill
Default SwiftUI is the iOS equivalent of AI slop. Left to its own defaults, a general-purpose coding assistant will hand you .body fonts everywhere, flat black or white backgrounds, list rows that run edge-to-edge without structural framing, and screens that look indistinguishable from, for example, the kind of toy app one builds while learning the primitives of SwiftUI. I have created the iOS Design Agent Skill to give Claude Code, Cursor, and the other Agent Skills-aware tools a design critic’s eye when they build or audit iOS interfaces.
Why Konjugieren Needed More Than Markdown
Markdown is, for most writing tasks that a developer encounters, the right tool. It is small, it is familiar, and its delimiters have become a kind of lingua franca for prose that wants a little structure without the ceremony of HTML. But Markdown, for all its virtues, has no opinion about the internal morphology of a German strong verb. When I set out to build Konjugieren, a free iOS app for learning German conjugation, I discovered that the one thing I most wanted to show my readers was the one thing Markdown could not convey.
