| 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. |
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).
- 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
@MainActoror move into an actor. - Background work: move expensive work into a
@concurrentasync function on anonisolatedtype or use anactorto guard mutable state. - Sendable errors: prefer immutable/value types; add
Sendableconformance only when correct; avoid@unchecked Sendableunless you can prove thread safety.
Reference material
- See
references/swift-6-2-concurrency.mdfor Swift 6.2 changes, patterns, and examples. - See
references/swiftui-concurrency-tour-wwdc.mdfor SwiftUI-specific concurrency guidance.