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Scenario → skills → tools → verification for common Apple-platform agent tasks.

Short paths for coding agents. Pick the scenario that matches the user request, follow the skill chain, then verify. Deep procedure lives in each skill’s SKILL.md — do not invent behavior from this page alone.

How to use

  1. Confirm the active workspace (consumer app vs this foundation repo).
  2. Invoke skills with $name (or host equivalent).
  3. Follow the XcodeBuildMCP capability ladder; missing tools do not authorize fallback.
  4. Stop when the recipe’s verification gate passes or a documented stop condition is hit.

Recipes

New iOS/macOS SwiftUI app (bootstrap)

Step Action
Skills $apple-development-foundation$codex-bootstrap → chain in skill (planner, tabs, design system, components, platform, reviews, testing). Invoke $codex-bootstrap directly only when already selected.
Tools XcodeBuildMCP
Verify Platform branch: iOS → build_run_sim / test_sim (+ optional screenshot); macOS → build_run_macos / test_macos, or at least build_macos if neither runs (no ui-automation)
Do not Expand this repo’s archive/Sources/; invent business domain the user did not supply

Details: Bootstrap.

Ship a feature in an existing app

Step Action
Skills $apple-platform-planner only if multi-feature/multi-platform; then authoring skills as needed ($swiftui-component-author, $apple-design-system, $ios-macos-platform-adaptation)
Tools XcodeBuildMCP for build/test
Verify $swift-testing-verification + MCP build/test; reviews if shared UI / async / sensitive paths
Do not Plan-for-planning on one-off screens; skip a11y on shared components

Author reusable UI (tabs, tokens, components)

Step Action
Skills $swiftui-tab-navigation when the app needs app-level peer destinations; $apple-design-system for tokens/appearance; $swiftui-component-author for reusable components on that system; $ios-macos-platform-adaptation only when platforms diverge
Tools XcodeBuildMCP for build/preview targets
Verify MCP build; $apple-accessibility-review on shared UI; $swift-testing-verification when logic or public component APIs change
Do not Use tab skill for page-style TabView content or segmented controls; put branding-specific tokens into foundation skills; land components in this repo’s archive/Sources/

Read each skill’s SKILL.md for checklists. Bootstrap chain context: Bootstrap.

Fix a bug

Step Action
Skills Targeted skill if the bug domain matches (concurrency, security, UI component); else implement directly with defaults from AGENTS.md
Tools XcodeBuildMCP; $maestro-apple-app-testing if the bug is UI/flow
Verify Smallest failing unit/UI check first; re-run after fix; report residual risk
Do not Broad refactors; claim fixed without a re-run

Review quality before ship

Step Action
Skills $swift-concurrency-review (async/actors) → $apple-security-privacy-review (files/logging/permissions) → $apple-accessibility-review (shared SwiftUI)
Tools Compiler/diagnostics via build when needed
Verify Findings + fixes authorized by user; then verification matrix
Do not Run a11y review on non-UI services; run concurrency review for pure styling

Details: Reviews and quality.

Unit / focused verification

Step Action
Skills $swift-testing-verification after meaningful code exists
Tools XcodeBuildMCP test/build on the right simulator or macOS target
Verify Smallest suite that proves the change; never claim pass without execution
Do not Use for planning-only work

UI regression / flaky flow

Step Action
Skills $maestro-apple-app-testing
Tools XcodeBuildMCP (build/install/sim) + Maestro MCP (inspect) + maestro test (regression)
Verify One exact simulator ID; run only the edited or directly affected flow (full/tagged suite only if user or release/CI asks)
Do not OS=latest; speculative flows when Maestro CLI is missing

Details: Testing, Maestro.

Add a shared SPM module or extract reusable code

Step Action
Skills $swift-package-module-author (new module in active workspace) or $reusable-code-extractor (proven app code → consumer shared module)
Tools XcodeBuildMCP / package build as appropriate
Verify Module builds and is importable from the consumer app
Do not Land extracted code in this foundation repo’s archived package

Author or update a foundation skill

Step Action
Skills $codex-skill-maintainer
Tools ./Scripts/verify-skills.sh; ./Scripts/test-install-skills.sh if installer behavior changed
Verify Canonical manifest update + generated catalog check; dry-run install
Do not Put business branding/secrets in skills

Details: Authoring skills.

Explicit foundation audit (only when requested)

Step Action
Skills $apple-development-foundation in audit mode with master-skill.json classifications
Tools Foundation verify scripts only if this repo or its installer is in scope
Verify Report inventory comparison + exact verification outcomes requested
Do not Treat ordinary routing as an audit, install, or full-repo scan

Details: Skill routing.

App Store marketing screenshots

Step Action
Skills $app-store-screenshots (external; not in manifest.json)
Tools Upstream skill tooling
Verify Per upstream skill
Do not Vendor the skill into .agents/skills/ unless maintainers decide to

Details: External skills.

Session skeleton (every recipe)

1. Orient: consumer vs foundation; read AGENTS.md if in this repo
2. Route: $apple-development-foundation OR direct $skill
3. Implement only in the active workspace required by the task
4. session_show_defaults before first build/run/test
5. Review skills when shared UI / async / sensitive data changed
6. Verify + report scheme, simulator/device, residual risk

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