ios-screenshot-taker

ios-screenshot-taker is a skill for Codex from JasonColapietro/ios-app-dev-skills. It costs 78 tokens per session (543 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for capturing repeatable screenshots of iOS apps in the simulator, Apple's virtual device environment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build an app, launch selected demo states, capture PNG files for App Store listings, TestFlight, testing, or marketing materials.
Why use it?
It makes screenshots reflect real, seeded app states and records the device, language, and purpose for each image.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to build an app, launch selected demo states, capture PNG files for App Store listings, TestFlight, testing, or marketing materials.

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

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 543 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 $0.00078 $0.00543
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00271
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00054

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4fc50d338d29, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ios-screenshot-taker 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-screenshot-taker/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

iOS Screenshot Taker

Principle

Capture real app states, not imagined UI. The screenshot set should be repeatable from a clean simulator and should map each image to a named product state, device class, locale, and store-listing purpose.

Workflow

  1. Identify the Xcode project or workspace, scheme, bundle ID, simulator device, app version, build number, and target screenshot states.
  2. Confirm the app can launch with deterministic demo data or safe seeded state.
  3. Run scripts/take_ios_screenshots.sh from this repository when available, or follow the same xcodebuild and xcrun simctl sequence manually.
  4. Capture one named PNG per app state and keep filenames sortable.
  5. Hand the raw captures to ios-aso-launch or the app-store screenshot editor for marketing framing, captions, and required export sizes.

Read references/screenshot-runbook.md before doing non-trivial capture work.

State Contract

Prefer launch arguments that the app can recognize, for example:

--ui-testing --screenshot-state home
--ui-testing --screenshot-state detail
--ui-testing --screenshot-state paywall

If the app has no screenshot-state router, use the safest available path: seed local demo data, launch the app, navigate manually once, then document any manual steps in the output.

Public-Safe Defaults

  • Do not capture private user accounts, unreleased customer data, tokens, API keys, internal dashboards, private App Store Connect screens, or support contact details.
  • Do not commit oversized raw screenshot folders unless the repository is meant to store release assets.
  • Downscale README/showcase images and keep the original store-resolution files in the app release folder.
  • Do not claim App Store approval from screenshot files alone; verify live Apple lookup or App Store Connect state separately.

Required Output

Report:

  • capture command used,
  • simulator device and iOS runtime,
  • app path or bundle ID,
  • output directory,
  • screenshot files produced,
  • missing states or manual steps,
  • whether the captures are raw QA screenshots or framed store assets.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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 · 64 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 4fc50d338d29

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ios-screenshot-taker is a skill published in the GitHub repository JasonColapietro/ios-app-dev-skills (3 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 543 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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