ios-scaffold

ios-scaffold is a skill for Claude Code from SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices. It costs 70 tokens per session (1,072 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating a new iOS app with a defined project structure, app and test targets, build settings, and submission-related configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting an iOS project that needs unit tests, optional UI tests, and a repeatable project definition.
Why use it?
It reduces setup mistakes that can block testing or TestFlight submission later.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the sdlc-team-ios plugin — 5 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting an iOS project that needs unit tests, optional UI tests, and a repeatable project definition.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stevegjones/ai-first-sdlc-practices/ios-scaffold
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 SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices --skill ios-scaffold
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdlc-team-ios, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 4 agents.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,072 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 $0.00070 $0.01072
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00536
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00107

Measured 7d ago against content hash 2ff4faf694db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ios-scaffold 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 7d 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.

plugins/sdlc-team-ios/skills/ios-scaffold/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

iOS Scaffold

Create a new iOS app project that is submission-safe from the first commit — so it doesn't hit the TestFlight/App Store blockers ios-testflight-release and the pre-flight checker exist to catch. Belongs to the sdlc-team-ios plugin; pairs with swiftui-architect (structure) and swift-language-expert (language).

Arguments

  • app-name — the app / bundle name (defaults to asking).

Steps

1. Choose the project-generation approach

Prefer a diffable, mergeable project definition over a hand-managed .xcodeproj:

  • Swift Package Manager (an app built as a package + a thin app target) for library-first / simple apps.
  • Tuist or XcodeGen to generate the .xcodeproj from a committed manifest (Tuist's Project.swift, or an XcodeGen YAML manifest) that is committed, so project changes review cleanly and don't cause merge conflicts.

Ask which the team prefers; default to XcodeGen/Tuist for an app that needs a real Xcode project.

2. Establish structure

  • App target + unit-test target (Swift Testing) + optional UI-test target (XCUITest).
  • A SwiftPM feature-module layout if the app is non-trivial (feature packages + Core/DesignSystem/ Models; thin app composition root) — see swiftui-architect.
  • .gitignore covering *.xcodeproj (if generated), DerivedData/, .build/, *.xcuserstate, .DS_Store, and any secrets file.

3. Wire submission-safe Info.plist defaults (this is the point of the skill)

Pre-set the keys the pre-flight checker looks for, so uploads don't stall or get rejected later:

  • ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption = false (if the app uses only exempt encryption such as standard HTTPS) — skips the export-compliance questionnaire on every upload.
  • A NS…UsageDescription placeholder-with-a-real-sentence for each capability the app will use (add them as you add frameworks; the pre-flight check maps CoreMotion→NSMotionUsageDescription, etc.). Leave a comment reminding that these must be real human sentences.
  • Set the deployment target to the team's minimum-supported iOS per policy (and keep it consistent across targets and Package.swift).

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 7d ago First seen · 86 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 2ff4faf694db

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ios-scaffold is a skill published in the GitHub repository SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices (41 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,072 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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