ios-app-factory

ios-app-factory is a skill for Codex from JasonColapietro/ios-app-dev-skills. It costs 87 tokens per session (541 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A complete workflow for choosing, building, preparing, and releasing an iOS app. It combines native SwiftUI development, App Store listing work, legal checks, testing, and release preparation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose a product idea, scaffold an app, build its main flow, prepare store screenshots and text, and run a release-readiness check.
Why use it?
It keeps the app itself and its App Store presentation moving together, while checking that the build, metadata, screenshots, privacy details, and secrets are ready.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to choose a product idea, scaffold an app, build its main flow, prepare store screenshots and text, and run a release-readiness check.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jasoncolapietro/ios-app-dev-skills/ios-app-factory
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 JasonColapietro/ios-app-dev-skills --skill ios-app-factory
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JasonColapietro/ios-app-dev-skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 541 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 $0.00087 $0.00541
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00270
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00054

Measured 11d ago against content hash cf45c610793c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ios-app-factory 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 11d 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/ios-app-factory/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

iOS App Factory

Principle

Build the app and its App Store surface together. A useful app that nobody can find fails; great ASO on a broken app also fails. Treat implementation and ASO as equal halves of the product.

Default Pipeline

  1. Choose a winnable target keyword before building.
  2. Scaffold native SwiftUI unless the user explicitly asks for a wrapper.
  3. Build the core loop: input, processing, structured result, history, saved set.
  4. Add monetization only when it does not block v1 credential or review flow.
  5. Produce App Store screenshots and metadata as first-class artifacts.
  6. Run the ship gate: build, metadata, screenshots, privacy, secrets, feature truth.
  7. Release only after explicit user confirmation for public submission.

Read references/factory-pipeline.md for the detailed phase map.

Public-Safe Defaults

  • Use placeholder bundle IDs like com.example.product.
  • Use environment variables for App Store Connect credentials.
  • Do not include private account IDs, phone numbers, real API keys, certificates, provisioning profiles, or .p8 files in outputs.
  • For first versions, prefer a free or no-account v1 if monetization credentials or IAP setup would delay validation.

Slash Commands

This skill pairs with the repository slash commands:

  • /ios-ship-app - run the whole pipeline.
  • /ios-keyword - keyword and competitor scan.
  • /ios-new-app - scaffold or plan the native app.
  • /ios-shot - deterministic simulator screenshot capture.
  • /ios-screens - screenshot capture and marketing frame.
  • /ios-grade - ship-gate scorecard.
  • /ios-release - archive/upload/submit checklist.

Completion Bar

Do not call an app ship-ready until:

  • the app builds on a named simulator or CI target,
  • the core flow works with real or deterministic demo data,
  • App Store metadata passes char limits and keyword rules,
  • screenshots exist at required sizes,
  • privacy/legal answers match actual SDK behavior,
  • no secrets or signing assets are committed,
  • the user has confirmed any outward submission action.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 11d ago First seen · 58 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A cf45c610793c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ios-app-factory is a skill published in the GitHub repository JasonColapietro/ios-app-dev-skills (3 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 541 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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