What is ios-cicd-github-actions?

A guide for building an iOS continuous integration and delivery pipeline in GitHub Actions. CI/CD means automatically building, signing, and delivering software; here the result is an IPA uploaded to TestFlight or the App Store.

Use it to configure or debug GitHub Actions workflows that pin macOS and Xcode, sign an iOS app, create an IPA, and upload it to TestFlight or the App Store.

It organizes Apple’s signing, provisioning, build, and upload requirements into a repeatable workflow. This reduces manual release work and avoids relying on moving build environments.

ios-cicd-github-actions — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by timheuer

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 timheuer/copilot-instructions --skill ios-cicd-github-actions

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timheuer/copilot-instructions

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,257 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00053	$0.01257
Opus 5.5	$0.00021	$0.00503
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00011	$0.00251
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00126

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1862a95555ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ios-cicd-github-actions 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 1mo 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-cicd-github-actions/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

iOS CI/CD with GitHub Actions (Build, Sign, Upload)

This skill helps design, implement, and debug a framework-agnostic iOS CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions. It focuses on the essential Apple requirements: build environment, signing, provisioning, archiving, and TestFlight upload.

What “done” looks like

A GitHub Actions workflow that:

Uses a pinned macOS runner
Uses a pinned Xcode version
Imports an Apple Distribution certificate into a temporary keychain
Downloads App Store provisioning profiles using App Store Connect API keys
Builds a Release archive and exports an IPA
Uploads the IPA to TestFlight

Canonical CI/CD order (do not reorder)

1. Pin the build environment

Explicit runs-on (never macos-latest)
Explicit Xcode version
Set a job timeout

2. Checkout source

Use actions/checkout
Enable submodules if required

3. Install build dependencies

Language SDKs, CLIs, package managers
Restore dependencies deterministically (lockfiles)

4. Import signing certificate

Use an Apple Distribution .p12
Import into a temporary keychain
Never store raw certificates in the repo

5. Download provisioning profiles

Use App Store Connect API key authentication
Match bundle identifier exactly
Use IOS_APP_STORE profile type for TestFlight

6. Build, archive, export IPA

Build in Release
Produce an .ipa suitable for App Store distribution
Export to a predictable path

7. Upload to TestFlight

Authenticate with the same App Store Connect API key
Ensure build number is valid and incremented

Required GitHub Secrets

Apple Distribution Certificate

APPSTORE_CERTIFICATE_P12 – base64-encoded .p12
APPSTORE_CERTIFICATE_P12_PASSWORD – password for the .p12

App Store Connect API

APPSTORE_ISSUER_ID
APPSTORE_KEY_ID
APPSTORE_PRIVATE_KEY – contents of the .p8 file

App Metadata

IOS_BUNDLE_ID – e.g. com.example.myapp

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 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.

1mo ago First seen · 192 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 1862a95555ed

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ios-cicd-github-actions is a skill published in the GitHub repository timheuer/copilot-instructions (1 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,257 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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