What is xcode-build-run-workflow?

A guide for building, running, inspecting, and diagnosing Apple apps and projects managed by Xcode.

Use it for Xcode workspace inspection, builds, app runs, previews, toolchain checks, project-file changes, and Debug or Release validation.

It helps developers find project and file-membership problems, choose the right scheme and toolchain, and validate builds in different configurations.

xcode-build-run-workflow — Skill by gaelic-ghost/socket

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.

Any agent

npx skills add gaelic-ghost/socket --skill xcode-build-run-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.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,207 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00067	$0.02207
Opus 5.5	$0.00027	$0.00883
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00013	$0.00441
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00221

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2e5b29cce4d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

xcode-build-run-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 1mo 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.

plugins/apple-dev-skills/skills/xcode-build-run-workflow/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Xcode Build Run Workflow

Purpose

Use this skill as the primary execution workflow for non-testing work in or around Xcode-managed projects and workspaces. Keep it focused on workspace inspection, read/search diagnostics, builds, runs, previews, toolchain management, file membership, Release-versus-Debug validation, and the .pbxproj warning boundary. scripts/run-workflow.fsx is the runtime entrypoint for MCP-first build/run execution, official CLI fallback planning, and direct .pbxproj warning enforcement.

When To Use

Use this skill for Xcode workspace inspection, project discovery, read/search diagnostics, build, run, preview, and navigator-issue tasks.
Use this skill for Xcode MCP operations, scheme-aware execution, and official Apple CLI fallback when the work is primarily about build/run rather than tests.
Use this skill when direct filesystem mutation around an Xcode-managed project may be required.
Use this skill for file-membership and target-membership verification after on-disk edits.
Use this skill for Debug/Release build-configuration work, artifacts, archives, toolchain checks, and Metal-toolchain-aware build execution.
Recommend xcode-coding-intelligence-workflow when the request is primarily about Xcode Intelligence setup, Xcode-hosted agents, external-agent access through xcrun mcpbridge, command/tool permissions, or Xcode-only agent configuration homes.
Do not use this skill as the default path for Swift Testing, XCTest, XCUITest, .xctestplan, flaky-test diagnosis, retries, or test filtering.
Recommend xcode-testing-workflow when the task is primarily about tests or test diagnosis.
Recommend explore-apple-swift-docs when the user needs Apple or Swift documentation lookup rather than execution work.
Recommend swift-package-build-run-workflow or swift-package-testing-workflow when the task is ordinary SwiftPM package work outside Xcode-managed execution.
Recommend bootstrap-xcode-workspace --operation align when an existing Apple product workspace needs managed guidance alignment rather than active engineering work.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 lines

Files

What ships with it

18 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.

1mo ago First seen · 145 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 2e5b29cce4d9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

xcode-build-run-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaelic-ghost/socket (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 2,207 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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