# swift-concurrency-expert

Skill reviews and fixes concurrency issues in Swift 6.2+: adds Sendable conformance, applies @MainActor, resolves actor isolation warnings, and migrates completion handlers to async/await.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 2000 installs · ★ 4009
- Author: Dimillian
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Dimillian/Skills/tree/HEAD/swift-concurrency-expert/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-03-29
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/swift-concurrency-expert

## What it does

When Swift 6.2+ compiler demands actor isolation or `Sendable` conformance, this skill helps triage the error, pick the smallest safe fix, and verify tests still pass. Triage identifies the current actor context, checks strict concurrency settings, and determines whether code binds to the main thread or runs in the background.

The skill applies common fixes: marks UI types with `@MainActor`, scopes protocol conformance to the correct isolation, protects global state, moves expensive work off the main actor using `@concurrent` async functions. After each fix, it rebuilds and runs tests to ensure no new warnings appear and behavior stays intact.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Dimillian/Skills --skill swift-concurrency-expert -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/swift-concurrency-expert/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/swift-concurrency-expert/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Dimillian/Skills --skill swift-concurrency-expert -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/swift-concurrency-expert/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Dimillian/Skills --skill swift-concurrency-expert -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/swift-concurrency-expert/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Dimillian/Skills swift-concurrency-expert
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/swift-concurrency-expert/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Dimillian/Skills --skill swift-concurrency-expert -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Dimillian/Skills --path swift-concurrency-expert
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/swift-concurrency-expert/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Dimillian/Skills --skill swift-concurrency-expert -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/Dimillian/Skills/tree/HEAD/swift-concurrency-expert/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Add `@MainActor` to UI types and scope protocol conformance
- Apply `Sendable` to types for data-race safety
- Migrate completion handlers to async/await with proper isolation
- Move heavy computation off the main actor with `@concurrent`
- Resolve actor isolation warnings without changing behavior

## Example prompts
- Review this file for Swift Concurrency issues and fix compiler warnings
- Add Sendable to types that cross actor boundaries
- Migrate completion handlers to async/await with correct actor isolation

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: swift-concurrency-expert
description: Swift Concurrency review and remediation for Swift 6.2+. Use when asked to review Swift Concurrency usage, improve concurrency compliance, or fix Swift concurrency compiler errors in a feature or file. Concrete actions include adding Sendable conformance, applying @MainActor annotations, resolving actor isolation warnings, fixing data race diagnostics, and migrating completion handlers to async/await.
---

# Swift Concurrency Expert

## Overview

Review and fix Swift Concurrency issues in Swift 6.2+ codebases by applying actor isolation, Sendable safety, and modern concurrency patterns with minimal behavior changes.

## Workflow

### 1. Triage the issue

- Capture the exact compiler diagnostics and the offending symbol(s).
- Check project concurrency settings: Swift language version (6.2+), strict concurrency level, and whether approachable concurrency (default actor isolation / main-actor-by-default) is enabled.
- Identify the current actor context (`@MainActor`, `actor`, `nonisolated`) and whether a default actor isolation mode is enabled.
- Confirm whether the code is UI-bound or intended to run off the main actor.

### 2. Apply the smallest safe fix

Prefer edits that preserve existing behavior while satisfying data-race safety.

Common fixes:
- **UI-bound types**: annotate the type or relevant members with `@MainActor`.
- **Protocol conformance on main actor types**: make the conformance isolated (e.g., `extension Foo: @MainActor SomeProtocol`).
- **Global/static state**: protect with `@MainActor` or move into an actor.
- **Background work**: move expensive work into a `@concurrent` async function on a `nonisolated` type or use an `actor` to guard mutable state.
- **Sendable errors**: prefer immutable/value types; add `Sendable` conformance only when correct; avoid `@unchecked Sendable` unless you can prove thread safety.

### 3. Verify the fix

- Rebuild and confirm all concurrency diagnostics are resolved with no new warnings introduced.
- Run the test suite to check for regressions — concurrency changes can introduce subtle runtime issues even when the build is clean.
- If the fix surfaces new warnings, treat each one as a fresh triage (return to step 1) and resolve iteratively until the build is clean and tests pass.

### Examples

**UI-bound type — adding `@MainActor`**

```swift
// Before: data-race warning because ViewModel is accessed from the main thread
// but has no actor isolation
class ViewModel: ObservableObject {
    @Published var title: String = ""
    func load() { title = "Loaded" }
}

// After: annotate the whole type so all stored state and methods are
// automatically isolated to the main actor
@MainActor
class ViewModel: ObservableObject {
    @Published var title: String = ""
    func load() { title = "Loaded" }
}
```

**Protocol conformance isolation**

```swift
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