xcode-mcp-app-testing

xcode-mcp-app-testing is a skill for Claude Code from itsnex1s/awesome-claude-skills. It costs 86 tokens per session (1,641 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for building and testing Apple apps in Xcode, Apple's development environment for iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. It uses Xcode's connected tools when available and otherwise uses the command line.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build Xcode projects, run all or selected tests, inspect test lists and build logs, check source-file issues, and launch or validate apps on simulators.
Why use it?
It brings compiling, test execution, issue checks, and simulator validation into one workflow. This makes it easier to find build errors, warnings, and failing tests.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to build Xcode projects, run all or selected tests, inspect test lists and build logs, check source-file issues, and launch or validate apps on simulators.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/itsnex1s/awesome-claude-skills/xcode-mcp-app-testing
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add itsnex1s/awesome-claude-skills --skill xcode-mcp-app-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itsnex1s/awesome-claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,641 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00086 $0.01641
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00821
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00164

Measured 12d ago against content hash c835d8b63912, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

xcode-mcp-app-testing 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 12d 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.

skills/xcode-mcp-app-testing/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Xcode MCP App Testing

Build, test, and validate Xcode apps using the native Xcode MCP server (Xcode 26.3+). Falls back to xcodebuild/simctl CLI when MCP is not connected.

Installation

Enable Xcode MCP server

  1. Open Xcode → Settings (⌘,) → Intelligence
  2. Under Model Context Protocol, toggle Xcode Tools to ON

Register with Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio xcode -- xcrun mcpbridge
claude mcp list  # verify "xcode" appears

If xcode does not appear: re-run the add command, confirm the Xcode Tools toggle is enabled, and restart Claude Code.

Xcode MCP Tools Reference

Build & Testing

Tool Purpose
BuildProject Compile the project for a scheme and destination
GetBuildLog Retrieve build output (errors, warnings, notes)
RunAllTests Execute the full test suite
RunSomeTests Run specific test targets or test methods
GetTestList Enumerate all available test cases

Diagnostics

Tool Purpose
XcodeListNavigatorIssues List all current warnings and errors
XcodeRefreshCodeIssuesInFile Re-scan a specific file for issues

File Operations

Tool Purpose
XcodeRead Read file contents
XcodeWrite Create a new file
XcodeUpdate Modify an existing file
XcodeGlob Find files by pattern
XcodeGrep Search text across the project
XcodeLS List directory contents
XcodeMakeDir Create directories
XcodeRM Delete files or directories
XcodeMV Move or rename items

Intelligence & Preview

Tool Purpose
ExecuteSnippet Run Swift code in a REPL environment
RenderPreview Capture SwiftUI preview screenshots
DocumentationSearch Search Apple docs and WWDC transcripts

Workspace

Tool Purpose
XcodeListWindows List open Xcode project windows

Execution Workflow

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 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. 12d ago First seen · 190 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A c835d8b63912

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xcode-mcp-app-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository itsnex1s/awesome-claude-skills (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,641 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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