with-ios

A set of best-practice rules for building iOS apps, Apple's mobile applications, including architecture and project organization.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps choose an architecture, separate business logic, organize files by feature, use coordinators for complex navigation, and split components into Swift packages.
Why use it?
It helps keep app views and controllers manageable as features and codebases grow.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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 rules/brunogama/ios-cursor-rules/with-ios
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brunogama/ios-cursor-rules

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 2,404 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 $0.00000 $0.02404
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01202
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00481
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00240

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2872d22d8349, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

with-ios 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 3d 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.

.cursor/rules/with-ios.mdc · 358 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 358 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

iOS Development Best Practices

As an AI assistant working on iOS applications, I should follow these guidelines to ensure high-quality, user-friendly, and efficient iOS apps.

iOS App Architecture

Architecture Patterns

  • Use appropriate architecture patterns based on app complexity:

    • MVC: Simple apps or when following Apple's basic patterns
    • MVVM: Medium complexity apps, works well with SwiftUI/Combine
    • VIPER/Clean: Complex apps requiring clear separation of concerns
    • Composable Architecture: Advanced reactive apps with predictable state management
  • Keep view controllers/views lightweight by moving business logic to separate components

  • Use coordinator pattern for complex navigation flows

  • Consider feature-based modularization for large applications

Project Organization

  • Organize project by feature, not by type
  • Use Swift packages to modularize components
  • Group related files in logical folders
  • Utilize Xcode's project navigator groups to maintain code organization
AppProject/
├── Core/
│   ├── Networking/
│   ├── Storage/
│   ├── Authentication/
│   └── Common UI Components/
├── Features/
│   ├── User Profile/
│   │   ├── Models/
│   │   ├── Views/
│   │   └── ViewModels/
│   ├── Shopping Cart/
│   │   ├── Models/
│   │   ├── Views/
│   │   └── ViewModels/
├── Resources/
│   ├── Assets.xcassets/
│   ├── Localization/
│   └── Fonts/
└── Supporting Files/
    ├── AppDelegate.swift
    ├── SceneDelegate.swift
    ├── Info.plist
    └── Configuration/

UIKit vs SwiftUI

When to Use UIKit

  • When targeting iOS 12 or earlier
  • For complex custom UI that's difficult to implement in SwiftUI
  • When you need precise control over UI performance optimization
  • For apps heavily dependent on UIKit-specific features

When to Use SwiftUI

  • For new apps targeting iOS 14+
  • For rapid development and prototyping
  • When you want to share UI code across Apple platforms
  • For list-based interfaces and standard UI components

Read the full file on GitHub · 358 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. 3d ago First seen · 358 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2872d22d8349

Subscribe to this mod's changes

with-ios is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository brunogama/ios-cursor-rules (74 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,404 tokens. 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.