Apple Dev Skills

Plugin apple-dev-skills from marketplace socket in gaelic-ghost/socket. Commands read from the repo's manifest — 1 month ago.

Skills (65)

• app-extension-architecture-workflow

  Route Apple app-extension work across extension points, targets, isolation, entitlements, shared containers, lifecycle, privacy, testing, signing, distribution, and handoffs. Use when the extension point is not settled.

• app-intents-workflow

  Design, implement, validate, and troubleshoot App Intents, App Entities, App Shortcuts, and system-surface integrations. Use when exposing a focused app action or content to Siri, Spotlight, Shortcuts, widgets, controls, Live Activities, or hardware interactions.

• appkit-app-architecture-workflow

  Guide AppKit app-structure decisions for macOS apps across app delegates, status-item menu bar apps, responder-chain menus, windows, controllers, restoration, archiving, Observation, and mixed AppKit/SwiftUI composition. Use when the user wants help deciding where AppKit responsibilities belong or h

• apple-developer-provisioning-workflow

  Plan and safely automate officially supported Apple Developer provisioning and CloudKit workflows through the App Store Connect REST API, Xcode-aware local discovery, cktool, and CKTool JS. Use when inspecting or changing bundle IDs, capabilities, certificates, devices, provisioning profiles, CloudK

• apple-image-representation-workflow

  Guide Apple image decoding, encoding, metadata, thumbnails, multi-frame sources, and representation bridging across Image I/O, Core Graphics, AppKit NSImage and NSImageRep, UIKit UIImage, Core Image, and Core Video. Use when image work involves files, data, representations, orientation, scale, color

• apple-runtime-telemetry-workflow

  Add and verify privacy-aware Apple unified logging and signposts in macOS, iOS, and related Apple apps. Use when designing Logger categories, diagnosing intermittent runtime behavior, collecting focused evidence, or measuring an operation with OSSignposter.

• apple-typography-workflow

  Guide Apple platform typography decisions and implementation across SwiftUI Font, UIKit UIFont, AppKit NSFont, San Francisco system fonts, SF Pro, SF Compact, SF Mono, SF Pro Rounded, New York serif design, Dynamic Type, text styles, fontDesign, fontWeight, fontWidth, monospaced digits, custom font

• apple-ui-accessibility-workflow

  Guide Apple UI accessibility implementation and review for SwiftUI-first code, with UIKit and AppKit bridge guidance plus explicit verification expectations and testing handoffs. Use when the user wants help making Apple UI accessible, reviewing accessibility semantics, shaping the accessibility tre

• arkit-face-body-tracking-workflow

  Guide ARKit TrueDepth face tracking, face anchors, geometry, topology, transforms, eye transforms, blend shapes, face-driven animation, world-plus-face tracking, body anchors, skeletons, joint transforms, scale estimation, privacy, and diagnostics. Use when ARKit face geometry or 3D body tracking is

• arkit-spatial-sensing-workflow

  Guide ARKit world tracking, anchors, planes, ray casting, feature points, scene depth, smoothed depth, LiDAR scene reconstruction, meshes, classification, environment texturing, world maps, relocalization, reference images and objects, geographic anchors, visionOS providers, privacy, and diagnostics

• author-swift-docc-docs

  Author and review DocC content in Swift components, including symbol comments, articles, extension files, landing pages, topic groups, and light tutorial-aware review. Use when the user wants help writing or reviewing DocC content, checking DocC structure or content correctness, or deciding which ex

• avaudio-engine-workflow

  Guide AVAudioEngine implementation and repair for Apple apps and packages, including node graph ownership, AVAudioNode attachment, input and output nodes, player scheduling, taps, AVAudioFormat, format conversion, manual rendering, offline processing, AVAudioUnit hosting, and real-time audio callbac

• avfaudio-session-workflow

  Guide AVFAudio audio-session implementation and repair for Apple apps, including AVAudioSession categories, modes, options, activation, deactivation, record permission, interruptions, route changes, Bluetooth, AirPlay, capture-session interaction, and user-friendly audio diagnostics. Use when the us

• avfoundation-media-pipeline-workflow

  Guide AVFoundation media-pipeline implementation and repair, including AVCaptureSession, capture queues, AVPlayer, AVAsset async loading, AVAssetReader, AVAssetWriter, export, transcode, sample-buffer append back-pressure, and capture or playback ownership boundaries. Use when fixing or modernizing

• bootstrap-xcode-workspace

  Create, adopt, extend, and align one Swift product workspace with app, extension, package, and service components under one permanent Xcode entrypoint.

• camera-capture-depth-workflow

  Guide Apple camera discovery, device and format configuration, focus, exposure, white balance, zoom, torch, stabilization, rotation, photo capture, RAW, Live Photos, depth and disparity, calibration, synchronized outputs, portrait and semantic mattes, computational capture, pressure, interruptions,

• choose-macos-virtualization-shape

  Choose the smallest macOS-hosted boundary for development, compatibility, or authorized security research. Use when deciding among the host, containers, container machine, full Linux or macOS VMs, remote systems, or physical Macs.

• core-animation-layer-workflow

  Guide Core Animation layer-backed rendering and animation decisions for Apple apps, including CALayer trees, layer-backed AppKit and UIKit views, SwiftUI bridges, implicit and explicit CAAnimation, CATransaction, CAMediaTiming, model versus presentation layers, shape, gradient, replicator, emitter,

• core-image-processing-workflow

  Guide Core Image implementation and repair across CIImage processing graphs, CIContext rendering, built-in and custom filters, RAW development, color management, HDR, regions of interest, Core Video and Metal destinations, and performance diagnostics. Use when Apple-platform image work changes, gene

• coreaudio-modernization-repair-workflow

  Guide legacy Core Audio and Audio Toolbox modernization and repair, including AudioUnit, AudioQueue, AudioConverter, AudioStreamBasicDescription, AudioComponentDescription, OSStatus diagnostics, callback lifetime, pointer ownership, Swift bridging, and migration decisions toward AVFAudio when approp

• coremedia-timing-samplebuffer-workflow

  Guide Core Media timing and sample-buffer implementation and repair, including CMTime, CMTimeRange, CMClock, CMTimebase, CMFormatDescription, CMSampleBuffer, attachments, readiness, presentation and decode timestamps, dropped buffers, AVSampleBufferDisplayLayer, AVSampleBufferRenderSynchronizer, and

• devicecheck-app-attest-workflow

  Guide DeviceCheck and App Attest adoption in Apple-platform apps using DCDevice, DCAppAttestService, app IDs, entitlements, server challenges, attestation objects, assertions, receipts, fraud-risk metrics, sandbox/production environments, rollout planning, and explicit client/server handoffs. Use wh

• diagnose-apple-entitlements

  Trace Apple entitlements across project source, account/profile authorization, final signed main or nested code, and runtime policy or consent. Use for missing or rejected entitlements, export-only failures, helpers, and re-signing.

• explore-apple-swift-docs

  Explore Apple and Swift documentation across Xcode MCP docs, Dash, source repositories, generated docs, and readable official web docs, including search, browse, source selection, local-docs fallback, and optional Dash install or generation follow-up. Use when Codex needs Apple or Swift docs help ra

• feedback-assistant-workflow

  Prepare, stage, and safely submit high-signal Apple Feedback Assistant bug reports, crash reports, enhancement requests, and Foundation Models feedback attachments. Use when Codex needs to gather reproducible evidence for Apple software, SDKs, developer tools, hardware, documentation, beta releases,

• file-provider-and-finder-sync-workflow

  Choose File Provider for Apple remote-storage synchronization or scoped macOS Finder Sync UI. Use when a feature needs cloud-backed files or Finder decoration without confusing Finder Sync with a sync engine.

• format-swift-sources

  Guide SwiftLint and SwiftFormat integration across CLI, Xcode build phases, Xcode source-editor workflows, Swift Package plugins, AppleScript, Git hooks, and GitHub Actions, including exporting SwiftFormat for Xcode settings into a checked-in project config file. Use this first when a later source-o

• icon-composer-app-icon-workflow

  Design, preview, validate, and integrate Apple app icons with Icon Composer. Use when a task mentions Icon Composer, .icon documents, Liquid Glass app icons, ictool preview exports, app icon design for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, or watchOS, or guided Icon Composer GUI work through Computer Use.

• ios-runtime-forensics-workflow

  Capture and interpret reproducible iOS Simulator performance and memory evidence. Use when an iOS issue needs ETTrace/symbolication, a memgraph, leak ownership traces, or before/after runtime proof rather than a code-only guess.

• linux-development-vm-workflow

  Prepare and reset persistent Linux development guests on macOS. Use when comparing container machine, Lima or Colima, and full VMs for distros, init systems, services, custom boot, disks, Rosetta, or nested virtualization.

• macos-development-vm-workflow

  Prepare and reset clean macOS development guests on Apple silicon. Use for restore-image compatibility, VM identity, installation, resources, OS-version testing, signing, privacy, and disposable macOS research guests.

• macos-distribution-workflow

  Inspect, prepare, validate, and troubleshoot exported macOS distribution artifacts. Use when checking signing identities, entitlements, hardened runtime, nested code, Gatekeeper, notarization readiness/results, stapling, or distribution-only launch failures.

• macos-privacy-permissions-workflow

  Diagnose macOS privacy permissions from the operation and responsible executable. Use for Accessibility, Automation, Developer Tools, recording or input, protected data, Full Disk Access, PPPC, prompts, Settings, resets, and helpers.

• macos-sandbox-file-access-workflow

  Design and diagnose macOS file access. Use for App Sandbox, App Groups, user selection, security-scoped bookmarks across relaunches, helpers or extensions, stale access, TCC overlap, POSIX or ACL, Data Vault, and SIP denials.

• macos-window-management-workflow

  Design, implement, and validate SwiftUI and AppKit macOS window behavior. Use when choosing window scenes, toolbar or title-bar treatment, drag regions, placement, resizing, restoration, document or utility windows, and focused window ownership.

• mailkit-workflow

  Design macOS MailKit extensions for content blocking, message actions, compose sessions, and message security with explicit privacy, capability, target, and validation boundaries. Use when a macOS app needs to extend Apple Mail.

• photos-library-editing-workflow

  Guide privacy-preserving PhotosUI media selection and PhotoKit authorization, limited-library access, assets, collections, fetches, change observation, image/video requests, caching, iCloud delivery, asset resources, creation transactions, albums, content editing, adjustment data, nondestructive edi

• safari-extension-control-workflow

  Guide macOS Safari integration decisions across Safari Web Extensions, Safari Web Inspector Extensions, Safari App Extensions, SafariServices APIs, content blockers, extension messaging, and app-to-Safari control surfaces. Use when the user wants a Mac app to extend, message, open, inspect, debug, o

• safari-mcp-workflow

  Inspect a scoped live site in Safari through Safari Technology Preview's local MCP server. Use for Safari-specific DOM, console, network, screenshot, accessibility, performance, interaction, responsive, or print-media evidence.

• sf-symbols-workflow

  Guide SF Symbols selection, inspection, customization, rendering modes, variable color, symbol effects, animated symbols, custom symbols, accessibility semantics, availability checks, and Apple app integration. Use when a task mentions SF Symbols, the SF Symbols app, systemImage names, symbolRenderi

• structure-swift-sources

  Organize Swift source trees and oversized Swift files by feature, layer, and declaration group; split large files, normalize `// MARK:` sections, enforce plain-language block-comment file headers, and move TODO and FIXME text into ledger files. Use after `format-swift-sources` has established a clea

• swift-openapi-client-workflow

  Build, integrate, test, and diagnose Swift OpenAPI Generator clients in Apple-platform apps and Swift packages using OpenAPIURLSession, OpenAPIRuntime, URLSessionTransport, SwiftPM plugins, Apple docs, Dash docsets, and clear handoffs to server-side Swift OpenAPI workflows when the API contract or s

• swift-package-build-run-workflow

  Guide ordinary build, run, manifest, dependency, resource, Metal-packaging, and Release-versus-Debug work in existing Swift Package Manager repositories. Use when Package.swift is the source of truth and the task is package build or run work rather than testing or package extensions.

• swift-package-extension-workflow

  Plan and validate SwiftPM build or command plugins, macros, package traits, generated sources, permissions, and Xcode handoffs. Use for Package.swift extension work or Swiftly/Xcode capability differences.

• swift-package-testing-workflow

  Guide Swift Testing, XCTest holdouts, code coverage, xctestplan handoff conditions, async test design, semantic accessibility-test boundaries, test-fixture organization, and package test-diagnosis work in existing Swift Package Manager repositories. Use when Package.swift is the source of truth and

• swiftdata-workflow

  Design, implement, migrate, test, and integrate SwiftData persistence in Apple apps using current Apple documentation. Use for @Model schemas, ModelContainer and ModelContext ownership, @Query integration, relationships, uniqueness, deletion, concurrency, migrations, preview or test stores, and boun

• swiftui-animation-workflow

  Guide SwiftUI animation design, implementation, repair, and validation across withAnimation, animation(_:value:), transactions, transitions, content transitions, matchedGeometryEffect, navigation transitions, PhaseAnimator, KeyframeAnimator, TimelineView, symbol effects, reduce-motion behavior, prev

• swiftui-app-architecture-workflow

  Guide SwiftUI app-structure decisions for Apple apps across `App`, scenes, commands, focus, environment, preferences, window and document coordination, and reusable view composition. Use when the user wants help deciding where ownership belongs in a SwiftUI app, which data-flow mechanism fits a resp

• swiftui-component-audit-workflow

  Audit and repair SwiftUI code toward self-contained declarative components, local reactive state, framework-native data flow, and simple reusable view interfaces. Use when an existing SwiftUI feature has external ViewModels, injected collaborators, imperative coordination, duplicated state, environm

• swiftui-liquid-glass

  Design, implement, review, and validate SwiftUI Liquid Glass interfaces across iOS and macOS. Use when choosing native glass effects, grouped glass surfaces, glass button styles, morphing transitions, availability fallbacks, or removing conflicting custom chrome.

• swiftui-performance-audit

  Diagnose SwiftUI rendering, scrolling, update, CPU, memory, image, layout, and animation performance from code and evidence. Use when a SwiftUI feature is slow, janky, broadly invalidating, memory-heavy, or needs a code-first audit before Instruments capture.

• tipkit-workflow

  Add, configure, present, style, test, and troubleshoot Apple TipKit tips in SwiftUI, UIKit, and AppKit using current Apple documentation. Use for Tip protocol definitions, Tips.configure, TipView inline tips, popoverTip tooltip popovers, TipUIView, TipUIPopoverViewController, TipNSView, TipNSPopover

• tips-helpviewer-workflow

  Discover local user-guide topics for installed Apple Mac apps through the Tips HelpViewer catalog, with app matching, installed-version capture, result verification, and authoritative fallback routing. Use when Codex needs task-specific help for an installed Apple app, needs to find a menu command t

• tvos-app-experience-workflow

  Guide remote-first tvOS SwiftUI and UIKit decisions: focus navigation, Large Text, Apple TV capability gates, and TVMLKit migration. Use for Apple TV interaction, focus geometry, accessibility, or platform-boundary questions.

• tvos-media-playback-workflow

  Guide tvOS media playback: AVKit-first player choice, custom escalation, remote commands, Now Playing, and validation. Use for AVPlayerViewController, MPRemoteCommandCenter, playback focus, or media-control boundaries.

• video-codec-processing-workflow

  Guide VideoToolbox compression and decompression, codec-session creation and properties, encoder/decoder selection, hardware capability, real-time and multipass policy, Core Video pixel buffers and pools, Metal and IOSurface interop, Core Media compressed samples and format descriptions, color/HDR a

• virtualization-framework-workflow

  Build and diagnose custom macOS and Linux VM hosts with Apple's Virtualization framework. Use for platform and boot configuration, devices, VM bundles, lifecycle, save and restore, UI, entitlements, and framework errors.

• vision-coreml-recognition-workflow

  Guide custom Core ML image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation, and feature-output integration through Apple Vision, including model provenance, configuration, image constraints, crop-and-scale behavior, typed observations, confidence, postprocessing, compute units, evaluation, a

• vision-image-analysis-workflow

  Guide Apple Vision implementation and repair for text, barcode, face, landmark, rectangle, contour, saliency, trajectory, pose, segmentation, tracking, feature-print, and image-location analysis across still images and video. Use when Apple-provided Vision requests, observations, orientation, normal

• xcode-build-run-workflow

  Guide build, run, preview-adjacent, workspace-inspection, diagnostics, toolchain, and guarded mutation work in existing Xcode-managed projects and workspaces. Use when Xcode-aware execution is needed and the task is primarily about build, run, or project-integrity work rather than testing.

• xcode-coding-intelligence-workflow

  Guide Xcode coding-intelligence setup, ACP-hosted agents, external-agent access through xcrun mcpbridge, permissions, Xcode-only agent configuration, and stable or beta agentic workflows.

• xcode-debugger-mcp-workflow

  Diagnose a running Apple app through Xcode’s active LLDB debugging session and assess the experimental Xcode 27 lldb-mcp executable. Use when setting breakpoints, inspecting frames or variables, issuing LLDB commands, or distinguishing a usable Xcode debugger session from an unavailable standalone d

• xcode-device-hub-workflow

  Manage and validate simulated and physical Apple devices through Xcode Device Hub. Use when selecting or inspecting run destinations, interacting with an app, changing simulated-device environment settings, capturing screenshots or videos, pairing a device, or collecting diagnostics.

• xcode-localization-workflow

  Plan, implement, review, and validate Apple-platform localization with Xcode String Catalogs. Use for .xcstrings setup, localizable SwiftUI and Foundation text, string tables, comments, plural and device variants, XLIFF handoff, locale UI checks, or Xcode 27 agent-assisted translation.

• xcode-testing-workflow

  Guide Swift Testing, XCTest, XCUITest, XCUIAutomation-oriented mechanics, code coverage, xctestplan matrices, accessibility-verification follow-through, test filtering, retries, diagnostics, and test-specific fallback work in existing Xcode-managed projects and workspaces. Use when Xcode-aware execu

MCP servers (2)

• xcode

  runs: xcrun mcpbridge

• xcode_lldb

  runs: xcrun lldb-mcp

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