xcode-build-skills

A collection of tools for measuring and improving Xcode build times, including Swift and macOS projects. Xcode is Apple's development app, and Swift Package Manager manages Swift libraries used by a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for measuring build performance, locating compile hotspots, reviewing project settings, and checking overhead from Swift Package Manager dependencies.
Why use it?
It helps find which source files, project settings, or libraries make clean and incremental builds slow. This gives developers evidence for deciding what to change.

Plugin 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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add AvdLee/Xcode-Build-Optimization-Agent-Skill
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/avdlee/xcode-build-optimization-agent-skill/xcode-build-optimization-agent-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AvdLee/Xcode-Build-Optimization-Agent-Skill

Made for: Claude Code.

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-build-skills 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.

.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 34 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "xcode-build-skills",
  "version": "1.0.1",
  "description": "A multi-skill plugin for benchmarking and optimizing Xcode builds, compile hotspots, project settings, and Swift Package Manager dependency overhead.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Antoine van der Lee",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/AvdLee/Xcode-Build-Optimization-Agent-Skill",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "xcode",
    "builds",
    "incremental-builds",
    "clean-builds",
    "swift",
    "ios",
    "macos",
    "spm",
    "benchmarking",
    "compilation",
    "project-settings",
    "explicit-modules"
  ],
  "skills": [
    "./skills/xcode-build-benchmark",
    "./skills/xcode-compilation-analyzer",
    "./skills/xcode-project-analyzer",
    "./skills/spm-build-analysis",
    "./skills/xcode-build-orchestrator",
    "./skills/xcode-build-fixer"
  ]
}
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside plugin.json in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. yesterday First seen · 34 lines scan A ade68c127919

Subscribe to this mod's changes

xcode-build-skills is a plugin published in the GitHub repository AvdLee/Xcode-Build-Optimization-Agent-Skill (1,211 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.