Macos Liquid Glass
Implement and review macOS SwiftUI Liquid Glass UI.
Install
npx skills add robinebers/openusage --skill macos-liquid-glass -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- robinebers/openusage4.5k
- Category
- Design
- Updated
- 3d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 2,127 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Implement and review macOS SwiftUI Liquid Glass UI. Use when adopting system glass, removing conflicting custom chrome, or building glass surfaces.
Liquid Glass
Overview
Use this skill to bring a macOS SwiftUI app into the modern macOS design system with the least custom chrome possible. Start with standard app structure, toolbars, search placement, sheets, and controls, then add custom Liquid Glass only where the app needs a distinctive surface.
Prefer system-provided glass and adaptive materials over bespoke blur, opaque backgrounds, or custom toolbar/sidebar skins. Audit existing UI for extra fills, scrims, and clipping before adding more effects.
Workflow
- Read the relevant scene or root view and identify the structural pattern:
NavigationSplitView,TabView, sheet presentation, detail/inspector layout, toolbar, or custom floating controls. - Remove custom backgrounds or darkening layers behind system sheets, sidebars, and toolbars unless the product explicitly needs them. These can obscure Liquid Glass and interfere with the automatic scroll-edge effect.
- Update standard SwiftUI structure and controls first.
- Add custom
glassEffectsurfaces only for app-specific UI that standard controls do not cover. - Validate that glass grouping, transitions, icon treatment, and foreground activation are visually coherent and still usable with pointer and keyboard.
- If the UI change also affects launch behavior for a SwiftPM GUI app, use
macos-build-run-debugso the app runs as a foreground.appbundle rather than as a raw executable.
