native-ios

native-ios is a cursor rule for coding agents from kensaurus/cursor-kenji. It costs 0 tokens per session (631 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Coding rules for the native iOS part of a React Native application, using Swift, Objective-C, Xcode, and CocoaPods. They also define how iOS changes are verified when the developer has no Mac.

In plain words
What is it for?
They guide Swift screens and modules, bridge code, localized strings, permission declarations, and CI-based builds tested through TestFlight.
Why use it?
They prevent unsupported local iOS instructions and reduce mistakes with native modules, permissions, deployment settings, and asynchronous code.

Cursor rule

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/kensaurus/cursor-kenji/native-ios
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kensaurus/cursor-kenji

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for native-ios

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/kensaurus/cursor-kenji/native-ios.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/kensaurus/cursor-kenji/native-ios)
Your own site
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 631 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 $0.00631
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00316
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00063

Measured yesterday against content hash d9b48f6c9add, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

native-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 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.

rules/native-rn-monorepo/native-ios.mdc · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Native iOS

The developer does NOT have a Mac. iOS code is written here and verified on CI. Do not suggest local Xcode, pod install, or xcodebuild commands.

Adjust ios/ to your repo's actual path (e.g. apps/mobile/ios/).

Stack: Swift first, Obj-C only for RN bridge boilerplate. Build: Xcode + CocoaPods on the CI runner. Deployment target: read ios/Podfile platform :ios, 'X.Y' — do NOT raise it without checking RN library compatibility.

Conventions

  • Native modules for RN: *.swift for logic + *.m bridge with RCT_EXTERN_METHOD declarations.
  • Async: Swift Concurrency (async/await, Task). Combine only where the API requires it.
  • No callback pyramids. No DispatchQueue.main.async wrapping unless updating UIKit on a background queue.
  • Logging: os_log or Logger with subsystem matching the bundle ID.
  • UI: SwiftUI for new screens; programmatic UIKit if existing patterns require it.
  • Strings: Localizable.strings. No hardcoded user-facing text.
  • Permissions: usage descriptions in Info.plist (NSCameraUsageDescription, NSMicrophoneUsageDescription, etc.) AND runtime requests.

Verification (CI only)

After editing iOS files, do NOT ask the developer to run anything locally for iOS. Instead:

  1. Make the edit.
  2. Suggest /rn-verify to catch JS/Android-side issues.
  3. When ready, suggest /rn-ship-ios to push and trigger CI.
  4. If CI fails, use /ios-ci-logs to diagnose.

Special case: if the change is purely in Info.plist strings (e.g., adding a permission description), it's worth flagging that the change is low-risk but must still go through CI.

What NOT to do

  • Do not edit *.pbxproj by hand. The developer can't open Xcode to fix a corrupted project file.
  • Do not bump Podfile.lock unless that's the explicit task — pod install runs on CI.
  • Do not change IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET without checking which RN libs it breaks.
  • Do not commit .xcuserstate, xcuserdata/, or ios/build/.
  • Do not suggest the developer "test on simulator" or "run from Xcode" — they cannot.
  • Do not claim iOS changes are verified just because TS passed — the developer must trigger CI.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. yesterday First seen · 65 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d9b48f6c9add

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native-ios is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository kensaurus/cursor-kenji (9 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 631 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 2026-09-03.