qa-testing-ios

qa-testing-ios is a skill for Codex from vasilyu1983/AI-Agents-public. It costs 42 tokens per session (4,670 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to testing native iOS apps with Apple’s XCTest, XCUITest, Swift Testing, simulators, and test-result files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run and organize iOS tests, control simulator destinations, manage flakes, and inspect test artifacts.
Why use it?
It helps teams choose test devices, investigate flaky runs, and avoid treating a passing simulator test as complete release proof.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to run and organize iOS tests, control simulator destinations, manage flakes, and inspect test artifacts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public/qa-testing-ios
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vasilyu1983/AI-Agents-public --skill qa-testing-ios
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vasilyu1983/AI-Agents-public

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,670 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00042 $0.04670
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.02335
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00934
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00467

Measured 9d ago against content hash 645827a6bfd2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-testing-ios 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/xcresult_to_junit.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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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.

frameworks/shared-skills/skills/qa-testing-ios/SKILL.md · 327 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 327 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

QA Testing (iOS)

High-signal iOS test execution and flake control for XCTest, XCUITest, Swift Testing, xcodebuild, xcresult, and simctl.

Pair this skill with software-ios-native when the work is part of a native iOS rewrite or a Codex / Claude Code implementation loop.

Core docs:

Quick Reference

Need Go to
Run the iOS test workflow ## Workflow
Load current defaults and command patterns ## Defaults and ## xcodebuild Patterns
Control flakes and destinations ## Flake Control
Load templates and references ## Navigation

Release Validation Boundary

  • Do not treat simulator green or archive green as full iOS release proof when the feature depends on distribution signing, real hardware, APNs, camera, biometrics, purchases, or background execution.
  • For those cases, require the release path that matches production behavior: signed archive, beta/distribution channel validation where relevant, and a real-device user-visible outcome.
  • Keep project-specific rollout procedures, backend endpoints, tester-account cleanup, and internal runbooks out of this portable core. Put them in project docs or scoped references.
  • Use references/ios-ci-general.md for release-CI and archive-path checks, and qa-testing-mobile/references/release-and-rollout.md for distribution-channel planning.

Defaults

  • New unit and integration tests: prefer Swift Testing unless the project is already standardized on XCTest.
  • UI and performance tests: keep using XCTest/XCUITest.
  • PR gate: thin simulator smoke coverage with xcresult artifacts always enabled.
  • Release confidence: add a real-device pass only where hardware behavior matters.
  • Flake posture: prove the flake first, then fix isolation, waits, or environment drift; retries are a debugging aid, not a success criterion.
  • Locale, region, timezone, permissions, and app state must be explicit in automation.
  • XCTest interop with Swift Testing is off by default in Xcode 26. If CI shows unexpected test-count drops after upgrading, set SWIFT_TESTING_XCTEST_INTEROP_MODE=limited in your test plan environment.
  • Snapshot baselines recorded before iOS 26 must be regenerated after adopting the iOS 26 SDK due to Liquid Glass visual changes. Review each diff before accepting.

Read the full file on GitHub · 327 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 · 327 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 645827a6bfd2

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qa-testing-ios is a skill published in the GitHub repository vasilyu1983/AI-Agents-public (87 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 4,670 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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