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version: "1.0.1" name: axiom-swiftui description: Use when building, fixing, or improving ANY SwiftUI UI — views, navigation, layout, animations, performance, architecture, gestures, debugging, iOS 26 features. license: MIT
SwiftUI
You MUST use this skill for ANY SwiftUI work including views, state, navigation, layout, animations, architecture, gestures, and debugging.
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Not on Claude Code? Where this router says "Launchsome-auditoragent", read that auditor's file in this suite and follow it inline — the same procedure, needing only file search and read.Available here:skills/swiftui-architecture-auditor.md,skills/swiftui-layout-auditor.md,skills/swiftui-nav-auditor.md,skills/swiftui-performance-analyzer.md,skills/textkit-auditor.md,skills/ux-flow-auditor.md.Homed in another suite:axiom-design/skills/liquid-glass-auditor.md.Agents that need Bash — builds, tests, simulators, crash symbolication — stay Claude Code-only; there is no inline equivalent for those.
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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 | |
| 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 → Launch
ux-flow-auditoragent
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"):
- Try axiom-swiftui FIRST — Domain-specific fixes (LazyVStack, view identity, @State optimization) often solve UI performance in 5 minutes
- Only use axiom-performance if domain fixes don't help — Profiling takes longer and may confirm what domain knowledge already knows
Decision Tree
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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 → Launch
swiftui-architecture-auditoragent - Performance scan → Launch
swiftui-performance-analyzeragent or/axiom:audit swiftui-performance - Navigation audit → Launch
swiftui-nav-auditoragent or/axiom:audit swiftui-nav - Layout audit → Launch
swiftui-layout-auditoragent or/axiom:audit swiftui-layout - UX flow audit → Launch
ux-flow-auditoragent or/axiom:audit ux-flow - Liquid Glass scan → Launch
liquid-glass-auditoragent or/axiom:audit liquid-glass(detects migration opportunities AND adoption-completeness gaps: variant discipline for media surfaces, glass-on-glass nesting, missingif #availablegates, primary-action tinting,.tabRole(.search); scores ADOPTED / PARTIAL / NOT ADOPTED) - TextKit scan → Launch
textkit-auditoragent or/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, missingisWritingToolsActiveguards; 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. |