developing-ios-apps

developing-ios-apps is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from The-Artificer-of-Ciphers-LLC/skills-from-the-artificer. It costs 162 tokens per session (3,374 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of developing-ios-apps, MIT.

An iOS and macOS app development guide for XcodeGen, SwiftUI, and Swift Package Manager. It also covers Apple app signing, notarization, device deployment, and build pipelines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure projects, resolve package and framework issues, deploy to devices, sign apps, notarize macOS apps, and prepare build pipelines.
Why use it?
It helps explain common project-generation, dependency, signing, and notarization failures. This reduces time spent diagnosing errors caused by Apple’s build and distribution tools.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to configure projects, resolve package and framework issues, deploy to devices, sign apps, notarize macOS apps, and prepare build pipelines.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/developing-ios-apps
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 The-Artificer-of-Ciphers-LLC/skills-from-the-artificer --skill developing-ios-apps
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/The-Artificer-of-Ciphers-LLC/skills-from-the-artificer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 162 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,374 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00162 $0.03374
Opus 5.5 $0.00065 $0.01350
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00675
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00337

Measured yesterday against content hash 64a4aea2531b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

developing-ios-apps scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

| Clean DerivedData | `rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/PROJECT-*` |
Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to developing-ios-apps — 7 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

developing-ios-apps/SKILL.md · 373 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 373 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

iOS App Development

Build, configure, and deploy iOS applications using XcodeGen and Swift Package Manager.

Critical Warnings

Issue Cause Solution
"Library not loaded: @rpath/Framework" XcodeGen doesn't auto-embed SPM dynamic frameworks Build in Xcode GUI first (not xcodebuild). See Troubleshooting
xcodegen generate loses signing Overwrites project settings Configure in project.yml target settings, not global
Command-line signing fails Free Apple ID limitation Use Xcode GUI or paid developer account ($99/yr)
"Cannot be set when automaticallyAdjustsVideoMirroring is YES" Setting isVideoMirrored without disabling automatic Set automaticallyAdjustsVideoMirroring = false first. See Camera
App signed as adhoc despite certificate @electron/packager defaults continueOnError: true Set continueOnError: false in osxSign. See Code Signing
"Cannot use password credentials, API key credentials..." Passing teamId to @electron/notarize with API key auth Remove teamId. notarytool infers team from API key. See Code Signing
EMFILE during signing (large embedded runtime) @electron/osx-sign traverses all files in .app bundle Add ignore filter + ulimit -n 65536 in CI. See Code Signing

Quick Reference

Task Command
Generate project xcodegen generate
Build simulator xcodebuild -destination 'platform=iOS Simulator,name=iPhone 17' build
Build device (paid account) xcodebuild -destination 'platform=iOS,name=DEVICE' -allowProvisioningUpdates build
Clean DerivedData rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/PROJECT-*
Find device name xcrun xctrace list devices

XcodeGen Configuration

Minimal project.yml

name: AppName
options:
  bundleIdPrefix: com.company
  deploymentTarget:
    iOS: "16.0"

settings:
  base:
    SWIFT_VERSION: "6.0"

packages:
  SomePackage:
    url: https://github.com/org/repo
    from: "1.0.0"

targets:
  AppName:
    type: application
    platform: iOS
    sources:
      - path: AppName
    settings:
      base:
        INFOPLIST_FILE: AppName/Info.plist
        PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER: com.company.appname
        CODE_SIGN_STYLE: Automatic
        DEVELOPMENT_TEAM: TEAM_ID_HERE
    dependencies:
      - package: SomePackage

Read the full file on GitHub · 373 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. yesterday First seen · 373 lines · 162 tokens per session scan C 64a4aea2531b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

developing-ios-apps is a skill published in the GitHub repository The-Artificer-of-Ciphers-LLC/skills-from-the-artificer (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 162 tokens to every session and 3,374 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). It is 92% identical to developing-ios-apps, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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