extract-ipa

extract-ipa is a command for coding agents from incogbyte/iOS-reverse-engineering-claude-skill. It costs 9 tokens per session (923 once invoked), scanned A, original, Unlicense.

A command that extracts an iOS IPA file or app bundle and begins analysing its structure. An IPA is the packaged file used to distribute an iPhone or iPad app.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to provide an IPA or .app path, check dependencies, install required tools when needed, and inspect the app's contents.
Why use it?
It starts the reverse-engineering workflow and checks whether the tools needed for the initial analysis are available.

Command

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside the plugin that ships it — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed.

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/incogbyte/ios-reverse-engineering-claude-skill/extract-ipa
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/incogbyte/iOS-reverse-engineering-claude-skill

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Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 923 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00009 $0.00923
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00462
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00092

Measured 5d ago against content hash 830d331eb601, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

extract-ipa scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

commands/extract-ipa.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/extract-ipa

Extract an iOS application and perform initial structure analysis.

Instructions

You are starting the iOS reverse engineering workflow. Follow these steps:

Step 1: Get the target file

If the user provided a file path as an argument, use that. Otherwise, ask the user for the path to the IPA or .app bundle they want to analyze.

Step 2: Check and install dependencies

Run the dependency check:

bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/ios-reverse-engineering/scripts/check-deps.sh

Parse the output looking for INSTALL_REQUIRED: and INSTALL_OPTIONAL: lines.

If required dependencies are missing, install them one by one:

bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/ios-reverse-engineering/scripts/install-dep.sh ipsw

The install script auto-detects the OS and installs via Homebrew when possible (brew install blacktop/tap/ipsw), or falls back to downloading from GitHub releases. If installation fails, the script prints exact manual instructions (exit code 2). Show those instructions to the user and stop.

For optional dependencies (INSTALL_OPTIONAL:jtool2, INSTALL_OPTIONAL:frida, etc.), ask the user if they want to install them.

After any installations, re-run check-deps.sh to verify. Do not proceed until all required dependencies pass.

Step 3: Extract and analyze

Run the extraction script on the target file:

bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/ios-reverse-engineering/scripts/extract-ipa.sh <file>

For IPA files: the script extracts the ZIP, locates the .app bundle inside Payload/, runs ipsw class-dump on the main binary, and extracts metadata.

For .app bundles: the script works directly on the bundle.

Options:

  • -o <dir> — Custom output directory
  • --no-classdump — Skip class-dump (faster, metadata-only analysis)
  • --thin <arch> — Extract a specific architecture from fat binaries (e.g., arm64)

For obfuscated apps (if the user mentions it or you detect mangled names):

bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/ios-reverse-engineering/scripts/extract-ipa.sh --swift-demangle <file>

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 89 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 830d331eb601

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extract-ipa is a command published in the GitHub repository incogbyte/iOS-reverse-engineering-claude-skill (87 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 923 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.