ios-static

ios-static is a skill for Claude Code from MingyiSecLab/Mingyi-Atlas. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,630 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for examining an iOS app package, the installable file format used to distribute iPhone and iPad apps. It covers obtaining an IPA, extracting it, and reviewing metadata, permissions, URL schemes, network settings, and embedded code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to acquire and unpack IPAs, inspect Info.plist and entitlements, review provisioning profiles, and identify app links, network exceptions, and background capabilities.
Why use it?
An iOS app's source code and security-relevant settings are not obvious from the installed app. Static analysis reveals its structure and declared capabilities without running it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to acquire and unpack IPAs, inspect Info.plist and entitlements, review provisioning profiles, and identify app links, network exceptions, and background capabilities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mingyiseclab/mingyi-atlas/ios-static
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 MingyiSecLab/Mingyi-Atlas --skill ios-static
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MingyiSecLab/Mingyi-Atlas

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,630 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 $0.00071 $0.01630
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00815
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00326
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00163

Measured 9d ago against content hash ab56eded7cdb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ios-static 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 9d 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.

src/skills/standard/reverser/ios-static/SKILL.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

iOS IPA Static Analysis

Acquire the IPA

# Option 1: App Store (encrypted FairPlay — needs decryption from a jailbroken device)
# Option 2: ipatool — pulls IPAs from your Apple ID
ipatool download -b com.target.app

# Option 3: Frida-iOS-Dump (jailbroken device required)
# Pulls a decrypted IPA from the device's memory
frida-ios-dump -o app.ipa "<bundle-id>"

Unpack the IPA

unzip app.ipa -d app/
# Structure:
#   app/Payload/<AppName>.app/
#     <AppName>                  — Mach-O binary
#     Info.plist                  — metadata
#     embedded.mobileprovision    — provisioning profile
#     en.lproj/, Frameworks/, ...

Quick triage

# 1. Info.plist — capabilities, URL schemes, ATS exceptions
plutil -p app/Payload/Foo.app/Info.plist
# Look for:
#   CFBundleURLTypes           — custom URL schemes (deep links)
#   LSApplicationQueriesSchemes — schemes the app probes
#   NSAppTransportSecurity      — ATS exceptions (HTTP allowed?)
#   UIBackgroundModes          — long-running capabilities
#   com.apple.developer.*       — entitlements

# 2. Embedded provisioning profile — entitlements + cert chain
security cms -D -i app/Payload/Foo.app/embedded.mobileprovision | plutil -p -
# Look for:
#   Entitlements (push, keychain access, app groups, network extension)
#   Developer team ID (Apple-issued vs Enterprise)

# 3. Mach-O architecture + protection flags
file app/Payload/Foo.app/Foo
otool -hV app/Payload/Foo.app/Foo
# Flags: PIE (always on for iOS), STACK_PROTECT, MH_NO_HEAP_EXECUTION

# 4. Check encryption status
otool -l app/Payload/Foo.app/Foo | grep -A4 LC_ENCRYPTION_INFO
# cryptid 1 = encrypted (decrypt via frida-ios-dump first)
# cryptid 0 = ready to analyze

Class-dump (Objective-C metadata)

# class-dump-z, class-dump-ng — extract Objective-C interface
class-dump-z -H app/Payload/Foo.app/Foo -o headers/
# Output: one .h file per class. Reveals method names, ivars, properties.

# class-dump (newer):
class-dump --arch arm64 -H app/Payload/Foo.app/Foo -o headers/

# For Swift symbols: swift-demangle
nm app/Payload/Foo.app/Foo | swift-demangle | head

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 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. 9d ago First seen · 163 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A ab56eded7cdb

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ios-static is a skill published in the GitHub repository MingyiSecLab/Mingyi-Atlas (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,630 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 2026-09-03.