ios-cicd-github-actions

ios-cicd-github-actions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from timheuer/copilot-instructions. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,257 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

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.

In plain words
What is it for?
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.
Why use it?
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.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/timheuer/copilot-instructions/ios-cicd-github-actions
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.

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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. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00053 $0.01257
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00629
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00251
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00126

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1862a95555ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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:

  1. Uses a pinned macOS runner
  2. Uses a pinned Xcode version
  3. Imports an Apple Distribution certificate into a temporary keychain
  4. Downloads App Store provisioning profiles using App Store Connect API keys
  5. Builds a Release archive and exports an IPA
  6. 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.

  1. 4d 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 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,257 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 2026-08-31.

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