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Install These Skills Before Codex Touches Your Xcode Project
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These skills prevent your agent from writing deprecated code (that they trained on), and push agents to use modern Swift app development. With these skills your agents can make any app: Install These Skills Before Codex Touches Your Xcode Project Grab skills for:
Plus, OpenAI just updated the Build iOS Apps Plugin, and published a new Build Mac Apps Plugin with telemetry (debug logging). These official plugins combine multiple skills, MCPs, and tools. 5 Links and Resources
New App Update!I updated my coundown timer for Tahoe! To celebrate, Super Easy Timer is free for a limited time. Download it now and you'll get it for free for life. Here's how I use Super Easy Timer:
I have future updates planned for Full Screen overlay support based on Super Easy Slides (which I use for my YouTube videos). If you enjoy either app, please leave an App Store review. Every review helps — appreciate it. Thanks for downloading my apps — have a great day! Talk soon, P.S. If you want a simple app workflow, download my skill AppCreator. Use AppCreator so both you and your agent can build apps from the terminal using Makefiles. Have a topic you want to learn about next? Ask me here. |
AI Code Brief - Paul Solt
Join 5,901+ iOS/macOS developers using Codex and agents to build and ship apps. Expect practical tutorials, repeatable workflows, and hard-earned lessons from 7 shipped apps and time at Apple, Microsoft, and GoPro.
Hey Reader, One indie dev was stuck at $250 MRR for 13 years. Then he started following Viktor Seraleev, changed 5 things, and hit $5,031 MRR a year later. The fix? Just better packaging. New icon New screenshots New onboarding Simple flow One key paywall placement I broke down five rules from Viktor that stop developers from making over $100: $250 to $5K MRR: 5 App Store Packaging Rules That Actually Work Read the full article → If your app is only converting at 1%, your only goal is to make...
Hey Reader, What workflow is best for Codex and Xcode? There are a lot of tools you can configure to work with Xcode, but they might be costing you context (or wasting time). Last year, I started using Makefiles with my agents. A Makefile is a script that can be used to build or run anything (like xcodebuild). I love that you can extend Makefile targets to support variables to hyper focus testing with agents. It's better for Codex to make one tool call that does exactly what you need, rather...
Hey Reader, My last app launch was a flop. I wrote the App Store copy after I’d already submitted for App Review — and I knew it. If you’re in that same boat, that’s okay. But don’t stop there. This week’s article breaks down the research workflow I should have used from the start: using AI and competitor reviews to write copy before you design a single screenshot. Read: The Screenshot Mistake That’s Costing You Downloads Every Day Grab the free 100 Best Practices for App Store Screenshots...