Audit Swiftui Charts

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name: audit-swiftui-charts description: Audit macOS SwiftUI charts for correctness, current APIs, and production conventions. Use for that domain or as part of a full audit.

Bundled resource root

Let <swiftui-plugin-root> be the absolute plugin directory two levels above this SKILL.md. Resolve that path before running commands or opening shared references. When these instructions say swiftui-ctx, invoke <swiftui-plugin-root>/scripts/swiftui-ctx; do not assume the command is on PATH.

Audit SwiftUI Charts

AUDIT-ONLY · macOS-only · SwiftUI-only. Run this on a finished or in-progress macOS SwiftUI project to detect — and where certain, fix — every way Swift Charts goes wrong: hallucinated chart/mark names, charts hand-rolled from stacks of rectangles instead of Chart, the wrong *Mark for the data, missing axes/legend/color-encoding, missing interactivity, version-floored symbols left ungated (or needlessly over-gated), wrong-arm iOS gates, unscalable large-series plots, and missing chart accessibility. Findings are written to disk in the toolkit's unified schema; certain mechanical defects are fixed under the fix-safety protocol. This is never a from-scratch chart generator.

Swift Charts is macOS 13+; SectorMark, the chart*Selection family, and chartScrollableAxes are macOS 14 (not 13); LinePlot/AreaPlot/BarPlot/PointPlot/SectorPlot/RectanglePlot/RulePlot vectorized plots are macOS 15. AI routinely mis-floors these and reaches for iOS-shaped or invented chart types — be suspicious wherever AI wrote chart code.

Boundary / seam note (stay in lane)

• Canvas-drawn charts belong to audit-swiftui-drawing-canvas. A chart hand-rolled with Canvas {} or Path is theirs; a chart hand-rolled from a ForEach of Rectangle/Capsule bars is ours (charts-02). When the bars are Canvas-drawn, note it in one line and cross_ref drawing-canvas.
• The Chart/Canvas no-accessibility-descriptor finding is intentionally double-detected with audit-swiftui-accessibility (keep-both per the cross-ref graph): we file the chart-descriptor gap and cross_ref accessibility; do not collapse it.
• Per-series color theory / WCAG contrast is audit-swiftui-appearance-color; we own only the encoding choice (.foregroundStyle(by:) vs a hardcoded per-mark color, charts-06) and cross_ref.
• Large-dataset render cost is shared with audit-swiftui-view-performance; we own the charts-specific scale fix (vectorized LinePlot/chartScrollableAxes, charts-10) and cross_ref.
• The blanket "is every OS-floored API gated" sweep belongs to audit-swiftui-availability-gating; this skill owns Charts gating in depth (charts-08/09) and defers non-charts gating there.

Defect index (charts-01 … charts-11)

id · tell · severity · fix · open reference. Severities: hard-fail (build break / never-correct), warning (compiles but non-native), advisory (judgment / perf). auto = mechanical single-answer fix; flag = show the ✅, dev applies.

id	One-line tell	Sev	Fix	Reference
charts-01	BarChart/LineChart/PieChart/ChartView/PieMark/DonutMark/ScatterMark/ColumnMark/.chartType(	hard-fail	auto	charts-api-surface.md
charts-02	Chart hand-rolled from a ForEach of Rectangle/Capsule bars or a GeometryReader	warning	flag	hand-rolled-and-mark-selection.md
charts-03	wrong *Mark for the data — BarMark for a continuous trend, LineMark across unordered categories	warning	flag	hand-rolled-and-mark-selection.md
charts-04	default axis cluttered/wrong — no .chartXAxis/.chartYAxis customization where needed	advisory	flag	axes-legend-color.md
charts-05	multi-series .foregroundStyle(by:) with the legend missing/hidden	advisory	flag	axes-legend-color.md
charts-06	hardcoded per-mark color repeated per category instead of .foregroundStyle(by:)	advisory	flag	axes-legend-color.md
charts-07	hand-rolled tap/drag hit-testing for selection instead of .chartXSelection (macOS 14)	warning	flag	interactivity-and-scale.md
charts-08	a version-floored symbol (SectorMark/chart*Selection/LinePlot) ungated or over-gated vs its real floor	warning	flag	availability-gating-charts.md
charts-09	#available(iOS …, *) gating a chart symbol in a macOS target (wrong arm)	warning	auto	availability-gating-charts.md
charts-10	thousands of BarMark/LineMark from one array (no vectorized plot / no scroll)	advisory	flag	interactivity-and-scale.md
charts-11	Chart with no VoiceOver descriptor (.accessibilityLabel/.accessibilityValue / summary)	warning	flag	accessibility-charts.md

One claim is FLOOR-SENSITIVE, not a fact about code: charts-08 fires for BOTH directions — a symbol ungated below its floor and a symbol needlessly over-gated above it (e.g. chartXSelection behind #available(macOS 15, *) when it is macOS 14, or SectorMark treated as macOS 13 when it is 14). Confirm the floor in floors-master.md + via swiftui-ctx/Sosumi before asserting either.

The real API, at a glance

Real (exist on macOS 13.0+ unless noted): Chart, BarMark, LineMark, PointMark, AreaMark, RuleMark, RectangleMark, AxisMarks, AxisValueLabel, AxisGridLine, .chartXAxis/.chartYAxis, .chartLegend, .foregroundStyle(by:), .symbol(by:), .position(by:). macOS 14.0+: SectorMark (pie/donut), .chartXSelection/.chartYSelection/.chartAngleSelection, .chartScrollableAxes, .chartScrollPosition, .chartXVisibleDomain/.chartYVisibleDomain. macOS 15.0+: LinePlot, AreaPlot, BarPlot, PointPlot, SectorPlot, RectanglePlot, RulePlot (vectorized function/large-series plots).

Hallucinated (never exist): BarChart, LineChart, PieChart, AreaChart, ChartView, .chartType(...), PieMark, DonutMark, ScatterMark, ColumnMark — these are other-library / invented shapes (PieMark→SectorMark, ColumnMark→BarMark, ScatterMark→PointMark, *Chart/ChartView→Chart { … }).

✅ Correct (grounded reference shape)

The canonical Chart call is the swiftui-ctx consensus shape — Chart { … } (45%) and Chart(data) { … } (44%) dominate; Chart(data, id:) { … } is the 11% tail. A real, current (macOS 26 SDK) call site from the corpus:

// f/deeper · PlatformsView.swift (consensus shape: Chart(_) { SectorMark … }; SectorMark = macOS 14+)
Chart(store.platformStats) { stat in
    SectorMark(
        angle: .value("Chats", stat.chatCount),
        innerRadius: .ratio(0.6),
        angularInset: 2
    )
    .foregroundStyle(stat.platform.color)
    .cornerRadius(4)
}
.frame(height: 220)

Source (real permalink, verify before citing in a finding): https://github.com/f/deeper/blob/19b9f69fa0bbe2cd12dc8ba3729114a194bf1bf0/Deeper/Views/Platforms/PlatformsView.swift#L34 · Apple spec via Sosumi doc: https://sosumi.ai/documentation/charts/chart. Every ## Correct in a finding is regenerated this way per the actual API — never hand-written — via swiftui-ctx lookup <api> then swiftui-ctx file <recommended.id> --smart.

Signatures, floors, and the full ❌→✅ rewrites: references/charts-api-surface.md. Floor values are the reconciled truth in <swiftui-plugin-root>/references/_shared/floors-master.md and the canonical invented-name list (incl. the Charts section) in <swiftui-plugin-root>/references/_shared/hallucination-blacklist.md — read, never restate them.

The 8-step audit workflow (execute verbatim)

1. ORIENT. tree/find the SwiftUI sources. Read the deployment target (project.pbxproj MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET, or Package.swift platforms:). It is load-bearing: charts-08 fires when a symbol's floor (14 for SectorMark/selection/scroll, 15 for LinePlot) is above the project floor and the call is ungated — or when a gate sits above the real floor. Record it.
2. LOCATE. Run the shared hybrid lint runner: bash <swiftui-plugin-root>/scripts/swiftui-lint.sh --skill audit-swiftui-charts --dir <sources> --json /tmp/charts.json --sarif /tmp/charts.sarif. It runs this skill's tier-1 grep tells (lint/grep-tells.tsv) + tier-2 structural ast-grep rules (lint/ast-grep/*.yml — the hand-rolled-bars containment + wrong-arm gate-scope rules grep can't express), plus a per-file parse probe, and emits unified JSON + SARIF. Read its parse_warnings — a flagged file did not fully parse, so a structural miss can't masquerade as clean; READ those by hand. The runner only LOCATES — never treat a hit as a finding. Engine + rule-file format + degradation: <swiftui-plugin-root>/references/_shared/lint-architecture.md.
3. READ. Open every located file in full — never pattern-match-and-patch blind. Whether a frame dimension is data-driven, whether a Mark fits the data's shape, axis/legend wiring, and gate scope are invisible to grep. Build a per-file inventory: each chart, its *Mark(s), data shape, axes/legend, interactivity, gate, and accessibility.
4. DETECT. Apply the index. Assign each candidate a confidence; report a finding only at 100% certainty (e.g. a hallucinated name, an iOS gate arm over a chart, a SectorMark ungated under a macOS 13 floor).
5. VERIFY. For anything ≤ ~70% confidence (a symbol you're unsure exists, a floor you can't place, a "wrong Mark" judgment), run both evidence sources. (a) Practice — bash <swiftui-plugin-root>/scripts/swiftui-ctx lookup <api> --json (and swiftui-ctx deprecated <api> for a currency rule): read its consensus (the canonical call shape), introduced_macos, deprecated+replacement, recommended/diverse permalink, and co_occurs_with; a lookup exit 3 (not-found, with a did-you-mean suggestion) corroborates a hallucination — no shipping Mac app uses the symbol. (b) Spec — confirm via Sosumi: curl -sSL https://sosumi.ai/<apple-path> using references/source-directory.md for the path and <swiftui-plugin-root>/references/_shared/sosumi-reference.md for the protocol (never WebFetch developer.apple.com). Cross-check introduced_macos against floors-master.md and the Sosumi doc: floor. The CLI contract is <swiftui-plugin-root>/references/_shared/swiftui-ctx-reference.md. Promote with the citation or discard.
6. REPORT. Write each confirmed finding (output contract below). One finding per file, zero-padded, ordered. Write the run's _index.md.
7. FIX. Apply corrections under the fix-safety protocol (<swiftui-plugin-root>/references/_shared/fix-safety-protocol.md): clean-tree gate, findings-first, only fix_mode: auto (charts-01 1:1 mark renames, charts-09 wrong-arm gate), one conventional commit per finding citing its rule_id, never weaken a check. The ✅ "Correct" is not a hand-written snippet — it is the swiftui-ctx consensus shape put in ## Correct, backed by a real macOS-26 example fetched with bash <swiftui-plugin-root>/scripts/swiftui-ctx file <recommended.id> --smart whose GitHub permalink (plus the Sosumi doc:) goes in ## Source. Leave flag-only findings open with that ✅ in ## Correct.
8. DOUBLE-CHECK. Re-grep each fixed file to confirm the tell no longer matches; record the evidence in ## Fix applied?. Re-confirm every citation still resolves and still says the expected floor. If a fix introduced a new tell (e.g. a SectorMark you added now needs a macOS 14 gate), loop that file back to DETECT.

Confidence gating (load-bearing)

Report a finding only at 100% certainty. Anything ≤ ~70% goes to VERIFY (step 5) before it can become a finding — never emit a speculative finding. Auto-fix only the mechanical set (charts-01 mark renames, charts-09 wrong-arm); everything else is fix_mode: flag-only.

Output contract

Inherits the toolkit's unified contract (full schema + body sections + frontmatter keys: <swiftui-plugin-root>/references/_shared/finding-schema.md — do not restate it). Specialized for this domain:

• Findings: swiftui-audits/charts/<context>/NN-slug.md (one finding per file, zero-padded, ordered). Per-run index: swiftui-audits/charts/_index.md.
• domain: charts. Frontmatter is the canonical schema; fix_mode is auto for charts-01/09, else flag-only. availability reads from floors-master.md. source is an Apple URL + access date (fetched via Sosumi) plus a swiftui-ctx permalink, or verify against Xcode 26 SDK. Emit cross_ref on shared-seam findings (charts-02 Canvas → drawing-canvas; charts-06 → appearance-color; charts-10 → view-performance; charts-11 → accessibility).

Starter <context> folders (file here when…):

<context>	File a finding here when…
hallucinated-api/	a chart/mark name doesn't exist on macOS (charts-01)
hand-rolled-vs-chart/	a chart is built from stacks/GeometryReader instead of Chart (charts-02)
mark-selection/	the *Mark doesn't fit the data shape (charts-03)
axes-legend-color/	axes are cluttered, the legend is missing, or color encoding is hardcoded (charts-04/05/06)
interactivity/	selection is hand-rolled instead of .chartXSelection (charts-07)
availability-gating/	a version-floored symbol is ungated or mis-gated, or gated on the iOS arm (charts-08/09)
scale-performance/	a large series isn't vectorized/scrollable (charts-10)
accessibility/	a chart has no VoiceOver descriptor (charts-11)

New-folder rule: if a finding does not fit any existing context folder, create a new one under swiftui-audits/charts/ with a lowercase-hyphen slug naming the sub-category, and note it in the run's _index.md. Prefer an existing folder when the fit is reasonable; consistency across runs is a hard requirement. Two runs over the same code produce structurally identical trees.

Reference routing

File	Open when
references/charts-api-surface.md	a name/signature/existence question — the real mark/plot allow-list + hallucination ❌→✅ + floors (charts-01)
references/hand-rolled-and-mark-selection.md	a chart built from primitives, or the wrong *Mark for the data (charts-02/03)
references/axes-legend-color.md	axis customization, the legend, and .foregroundStyle(by:) vs hardcoded color (charts-04/05/06)
references/interactivity-and-scale.md	.chartXSelection vs hand-rolled selection, and large-series vectorized/scrollable plots (charts-07/10)
references/availability-gating-charts.md	Charts gating depth, the corrected floors, over-gating, the wrong-arm trap (charts-08/09)
references/accessibility-charts.md	the chart VoiceOver descriptor gap, keep-both with accessibility (charts-11)
references/source-directory.md	step VERIFY — the Apple/WWDC/practitioner source map fetched via Sosumi
lint/grep-tells.tsv + lint/ast-grep/*.yml	step LOCATE — this skill's declarative lint rule set fed to the shared runner (tier-1 grep tells + tier-2 structural ast-grep); edit here to tune detection

Shared toolkit references (point in, never restate):

Shared file	For
<swiftui-plugin-root>/references/_shared/floors-master.md	every floor/availability value (the reconciled truth)
<swiftui-plugin-root>/references/_shared/hallucination-blacklist.md	the canonical invented-name list (incl. §4 Charts)
<swiftui-plugin-root>/references/_shared/macos-arm-gating.md	the macOS-arm gating rule + wrong-arm failure (charts-09)
<swiftui-plugin-root>/references/_shared/finding-schema.md	the unified finding schema + frontmatter keys + cross_ref
<swiftui-plugin-root>/references/_shared/fix-safety-protocol.md	the fix-safety protocol (step FIX)
<swiftui-plugin-root>/references/_shared/sosumi-reference.md	the Apple-doc spec fetch protocol (step VERIFY)
<swiftui-plugin-root>/references/_shared/swiftui-ctx-reference.md	the practice-corpus CLI contract — lookup/deprecated/file --smart for the consensus shape + permalinked example (steps VERIFY · FIX)
<swiftui-plugin-root>/references/_shared/cross-ref-graph.md	seam ownership + cross_ref targets

Detection accelerator

bash <swiftui-plugin-root>/scripts/swiftui-lint.sh --skill audit-swiftui-charts --dir <files-or-dir> [--json out.json] [--sarif out.sarif] — the toolkit's one shared hybrid lint engine, fed this skill's declarative rules: tier-1 grep tells (lint/grep-tells.tsv, charts-01/02/03/04/05/06/07/08/09/10/11)

• tier-2 ast-grep structural rules (lint/ast-grep/*.yml — charts-02 hand-rolled-bars containment, charts-09 wrong-arm gate-scope) that grep cannot express. It runs a per-file parse probe (surfaces "did not fully parse" so a structural miss can't look clean), emits unified JSON + SARIF, exits 2 on any hard-fail (charts-01/08/09) for a CI gate, and degrades to grep-only with a notice if ast-grep is unreachable (npx --package @ast-grep/cli ast-grep; faster: brew install ast-grep). It only LOCATES — always READ each hit in full before reporting (step READ). The legacy scripts/charts-lint.sh is a thin pointer to this runner. Engine + rule-file format + JSON/SARIF shape + safety rails: <swiftui-plugin-root>/references/_shared/lint-architecture.md.