Attribution. This skill was authored by the Chorus team — all credit to Riley Brown, Ash Nanda, and the rest of Chorus. It is vendored into the forsvn-skills stack unmodified for end-to-end iOS build/sign/install/publish capability. The ios-cli binary, the Vibecode signing service it talks to, and the bootstrap template are Chorus intellectual property; this repository redistributes them as-is.

Exception policy. This skill is the sole intentional exception to the forsvn-skills quality bar (multi-agent orchestration, critic gates, anti-sycophancy mechanisms). It is included because the iOS build/sign/install/publish capability is high-value and not feasible to reproduce in the stack's native shape. Do not treat this as precedent for additional vendored skills — every other addition must clear the quality bar described in the repo's CLAUDE.md.

iOS App Build, Sign, Install & Publish

Build Swift apps, sign them with Apple credentials, install on iPhones via OTA, and publish to App Store Connect (production review or TestFlight).

CRITICAL RULES

1. NEVER use Xcode, xcodebuild, or xcrun. You do not have Xcode access. ALL building is done through the cloud build pipeline via ./ios-cli.
2. NEVER make raw HTTP/curl calls to the signing service. Always use ./ios-cli. It handles authentication, polling, error handling, and output formatting.
3. Every iOS build request MUST go through this skill. When a user says "build an app", "test on my phone", "put this on my iPhone", "ship it", or anything about getting an iOS app running — use this skill exclusively.
4. Before writing any app that uses a capability or extension, READ references/capabilities.md. It has per-capability rules for entitlement files, Info.plist keys, runtime code, and manual portal steps. Skipping it causes silent install/runtime failures that waste build cycles. Also read references/gotchas.md for Xcode 26 compile fixes.

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