xcode-coding-intelligence-workflow

xcode-coding-intelligence-workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gaelic-ghost/socket. It costs 49 tokens per session (3,162 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for configuring Xcode’s coding assistants, connected agents, chat providers, models, and tool permissions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure coding intelligence, connect an outside agent through Xcode, choose models, and manage agent commands, tools, and conversations.
Why use it?
It explains how Xcode-hosted and external agents connect to Xcode and which permissions and setup choices affect their access.

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/xcode-coding-intelligence-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add gaelic-ghost/socket --skill xcode-coding-intelligence-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 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,162 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 $0.00049 $0.03162
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01581
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00632
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00316

Measured yesterday against content hash efa5b01126ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

xcode-coding-intelligence-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/xcode-coding-intelligence-workflow/SKILL.md · 189 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Xcode Coding Intelligence Workflow

Purpose

Guide setup and reasoning for Xcode coding intelligence without taking over normal build, run, preview, or testing execution.

This skill owns Xcode Intelligence setup, Xcode-hosted ACP agents, chat providers, external-agent access through xcrun mcpbridge, Xcode 27 headless MCP service lifecycle, Xcode plug-in import inspection, command and tool permissions, Xcode-only agent configuration homes, and the boundary between Xcode's assistant UI and external agent sessions. It is the setup and permissions companion for xcode-build-run-workflow and xcode-testing-workflow.

Current note: Apple documents ACP agent setup in Xcode 26.6 and Xcode 27. Xcode 27-only behavior remains beta-specific unless the target machine's installed Xcode and current Apple docs confirm it.

When To Use

  • Use this skill when the task is about Xcode Intelligence settings, coding assistants, Xcode-hosted agents, chat providers, model choice, agent conversations, plan mode, artifacts, or command and tool permissions.
  • Use this skill when configuring external agents to use Xcode capabilities through xcrun mcpbridge.
  • Use this skill when adding an ACP-compatible agent such as Hermes to Xcode's own agent UI.
  • Use this skill when inspecting Xcode's Plug-ins UI import paths for skills, hooks, and MCP servers.
  • Use this skill when the user needs to distinguish Xcode-hosted agents from normal Codex sessions that connect to Xcode through MCP.
  • Use this skill when the task mentions Xcode-only agent configuration homes, Xcode-launched Codex, Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT in Xcode, or other chat-provider setup.
  • Use this skill when Xcode agent workflows should be checked before a build, test, preview, localization, or Device Hub handoff.
  • Recommend xcode-build-run-workflow when the next step is workspace inspection, build, run, preview, file membership, target membership, diagnostics, or guarded project mutation.
  • Recommend xcode-testing-workflow when the next step is Swift Testing, XCTest, XCUITest, .xctestplan, test filtering, retries, or test diagnosis.
  • Recommend explore-apple-swift-docs when the user primarily needs current Apple documentation lookup rather than setup and workflow planning.
  • Recommend bootstrap-xcode-workspace --operation align when an existing Apple product workspace needs durable Xcode guidance alignment.
  • Recommend agent-portability-skills:operate-acp-agent-integration for cross-client ACP launch and diagnosis.
  • Recommend agent-portability-skills:build-acp-agent for implementing an ACP agent/server.
  • Do not use this skill as the owner for implementing custom ACP agents, custom MCP servers, Xcode plug-in packages, or broad agent-configuration sync.

Read the full file on GitHub · 189 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 · 189 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A efa5b01126ed

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xcode-coding-intelligence-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaelic-ghost/socket (7 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 3,162 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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