CI CD Setup

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Setting up GitHub Actions
• Fastlane for continuous integration
• App Store deployment

Example prompts

• “/ci-cd-setup”

Requirements

• A Bash shell
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, Bash, AskUserQuestion

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1CI/CD Platform
2. 2Distribution Method
3. 3Include fastlane?
4. 4Code Signing Approach

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9ffb831. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Write
  • Edit
  • Glob
  • Grep
  • Bash
  • AskUserQuestion

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Ships script files (Shell), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • brew

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

  • developer.apple.com
  • github.com
  • docs.fastlane.tools

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • APP_STORE_CONNECT_API_KEY_ID
  • CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

CI CD Setup loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 58 tokens; SKILL.md has 493 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~58

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.5k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

• NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md

  allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, Bash, AskUserQuestion

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills at commit 9ffb831, republished under its MIT licence (© rshankras). 493 words, ~1,543 tokens.

name

ci-cd-setup

description

Generate CI/CD configuration for automated builds, tests, and distribution of iOS/macOS apps. Use when setting up GitHub Actions, Xcode Cloud, or fastlane for continuous integration, TestFlight, or App Store deployment.

allowed-tools

Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, Bash, AskUserQuestion

last_verified

2026-07-16

review_by

2027-06-22

.github/workflows/
├── build-test.yml        # PR checks, unit tests
├── deploy-testflight.yml # TestFlight deployment
└── deploy-appstore.yml   # App Store submission

ci_scripts/
├── ci_post_clone.sh      # Post-clone setup
└── ci_pre_xcodebuild.sh  # Pre-build configuration

fastlane/
├── Fastfile              # Lane definitions
├── Appfile               # App configuration
└── Matchfile             # Code signing (if using match)

.swiftlint.yml            # from templates/swiftlint/swiftlint.yml

© rshankras, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 11 other files in skills/generators/ci-cd-setup of rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills.

• SKILL.md
• ci-cd-patterns.md
• templates/fastlane/Appfile
• templates/fastlane/Fastfile
• templates/fastlane/Matchfile
• templates/github-actions/build-test.yml
• templates/github-actions/deploy-appstore.yml
• templates/github-actions/deploy-testflight.yml
• templates/swiftlint/swiftlint.yml
• templates/xcode-cloud/XcodeCloudSetup.md
• templates/xcode-cloud/ci_post_clone.sh
• templates/xcode-cloud/ci_pre_xcodebuild.sh

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9ffb831