An MCP bridge that lets external coding-agent sessions use Xcode's project-specific tools. MCP is a standard way for an AI agent to connect to software tools.

Use it to connect an external agent to an open Xcode project through `xcrun mcpbridge` after enabling Model Context Protocol in Xcode settings.

It provides access through Xcode's built-in bridge while making the required app settings and open-project conditions clear. Without those conditions, the bridge may not expose useful project tools.

xcode — MCP server by gaelic-ghost

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 mcp/gaelic-ghost/socket/apple-dev-skills-xcode

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gaelic-ghost/socket

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

xcode 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/apple-dev-skills/.mcp.json · 9 lines

What it actually says

{
  "xcode": {
    "command": "xcrun",
    "args": [
      "mcpbridge"
    ],
    "note": "Registers Xcode's built-in MCP bridge for external Codex sessions. Users still need Xcode installed, Xcode > Settings > Intelligence > Model Context Protocol enabled, and an open project in Xcode for the bridge to provide project-specific tools."
  }
}

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.

yesterday First seen · 9 lines scan A 41637df1771a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

xcode is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository gaelic-ghost/socket (6 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. 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 2026-08-31.

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xcode

Getting it into your agent

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

What this file has done since we first saw it

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