xcodebuild-basics

A command reference for xcodebuild, Apple's command-line tool for building, testing, and managing Xcode projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or testing Apple-platform projects outside the Xcode graphical app.
Why use it?
It helps you run common Xcode tasks from a terminal and understand the command patterns involved.

Command for Claude Code

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/malpern/voxclaw/xcodebuild-basics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/malpern/VoxClaw

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,361 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00000 $0.01361
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00681
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00272
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00136

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1612789ddbee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

xcodebuild-basics scanned grade D with 2 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 2d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData
.claude/commands/building-apple-platform-products/references/xcodebuild-basics.md · 248 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2d ago First seen · 248 lines · 0 tokens per session scan D 1612789ddbee

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xcodebuild-basics is a command published in the GitHub repository malpern/VoxClaw (209 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,361 tokens. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (asks for root, recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.