macos-distribution-workflow

macos-distribution-workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gaelic-ghost/socket. It costs 53 tokens per session (816 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for checking exported macOS apps, packages, and disk images before distribution. It examines signing, permissions, hardened runtime settings, nested code, Gatekeeper, notarization, and stapling.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to diagnose distribution-only launch failures, validate notarization readiness, inspect entitlements and signatures, and troubleshoot Gatekeeper behavior.
Why use it?
It helps explain why a signed app is rejected, blocked, or fails to launch on another Mac by inspecting the actual artifact users receive.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the apple-dev-skills plugin — 65 skills, 2 MCP servers shipped together

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 skills/gaelic-ghost/socket/macos-distribution-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add gaelic-ghost/socket --skill macos-distribution-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gaelic-ghost/socket

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install apple-dev-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 65 skills, 2 MCP servers.

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README.md
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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 816 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 $0.00053 $0.00816
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00408
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00082

Measured yesterday against content hash 90f0d695a643, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

macos-distribution-workflow 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/skills/macos-distribution-workflow/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

macOS Distribution Workflow

Purpose

Treat a signed exported artifact as the source of truth for macOS distribution diagnosis. This workflow distinguishes project/account provisioning from artifact trust: inspect the bundle, classify the failure, and use the minimum verifiable repair or release-validation path.

When To Use

  • Use for .app, .pkg, or disk-image distribution artifacts; signing state; entitlements; hardened runtime; nested signatures; Gatekeeper; notarization; stapling; and direct-distribution failures.
  • Do not use for ordinary Debug builds, account-side certificate/profile creation, or project signing-setting edits without an artifact diagnosis.

Single-Path Workflow

  1. Apply the Apple docs gate through explore-apple-swift-docs. Confirm the distribution channel and current signing/notarization requirement before acting.
  2. Identify the exact artifact, distribution channel, main executable, nested frameworks/helpers/extensions, signing identity, and observed user-visible failure.
  3. Read references/artifact-inspection-and-classification.md and inspect bundle structure, signature details, entitlements, nested code, and Gatekeeper assessment before prescribing a fix.
  4. Classify the problem: unsigned/ad hoc signing, wrong identity, entitlement mismatch, hardened-runtime issue, nested-code ordering issue, sandbox issue, Gatekeeper assessment, or notarization/stapling readiness.
  5. Keep account-side provisioning with apple-developer-provisioning-workflow; keep project signing or entitlement edits with xcode-build-run-workflow. Do not hand-edit/re-sign a built artifact as a first response to a project configuration problem.
  6. For direct distribution, validate the outermost deliverable, notarization result, and stapling state appropriate to the chosen package shape. Keep local-debug validity distinct from distribution readiness.
  7. Report the inspected artifact, evidence, failure class, smallest repair path, and the validation that remains after repair.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md 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 · 60 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 90f0d695a643

Subscribe to this mod's changes

macos-distribution-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaelic-ghost/socket (7 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 816 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. 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.

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