Swift Package Workflow Agent Skill

Compatibility workflow surface for broad or legacy Swift Package Manager execution requests.

Context cost
7.9k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
12 files · 50.4 kB2 scripts among them — read before you run
Licence
Apache-2.0the author’s own terms
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Compatibility workflow surface for broad or legacy Swift Package Manager execution requests. Use when older references still point at swift-package-workflow and route the request into swift-package-build-run-workflow or swift-package-testing-workflow while preserving SwiftPM-first mixed-root handoff behavior.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

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The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md9.8 kB · preview
--- name: swift-package-workflow ---
6# Swift Package Workflow
7
8## Purpose
9
10Use this skill as a compatibility surface for older references to swift-package-workflow while the repo transitions to narrower package execution skills. The real long-term owners are swift-package-build-run-workflow for build/run and manifest work and swift-package-testing-workflow for testing work. scripts/run_workflow.py now stays intentionally thin: it performs repo-shape checks, preserves mixed-root and Xcode handoff boundaries, and returns routing context rather than trying to keep a second full execution-planning surface alive.
11
12## When To Use
13
14- Use this skill when older docs, prompts, or install surfaces still name swift-package-workflow.
15- Use this skill when the request is broad and the first job is deciding between the narrower package build/run and testing skills.
16- Use this skill when the user is working in a terminal or in editors such as Zed, VS Code, Neovim, Sublime Text, or other non-Xcode environments and the package-specific surface is obvious but the narrower skill has not yet been named.
17- Do not use this skill for brand-new package bootstrap from nothing.
18- Do not use this skill for repo-guidance alignment in an existing package repo.
19- Do not use this skill as the default path for Xcode workspace, scheme, preview, simulator, or navigator-driven work.
20- Recommend swift-package-build-run-workflow when the request is primarily about manifest, dependencies, plugins, package resources, Metal distribution, build, or run work.
21- Recommend swift-package-testing-workflow when the request is primarily about Swift Testing, XCTest, .xctestplan, fixtures, flake diagnosis, or package test execution.
22- Recommend bootstrap-swift-package when the package repo does not exist yet.
23- Recommend sync-swift-package-guidance when the repo guidance needs to be added, refreshed, or merged.
24- Recommend xcode-build-run-workflow when the task depends on active Xcode workspace state, scheme-aware execution, previews, navigator diagnostics, simulator or device flows, or guarded mutation inside Xcode-managed scope.
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md1,279 words
Files12
LicenceApache-2.0
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈90
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
7,785
on trigger
The instruction body and 11 supporting files, read only when the skill fires.
3.9%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 39% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

7.9k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

12 files, 50.4 kB on disk. Mostly text — the instructions the model reads — with 2 scripts in it that your client would run only if the instructions tell it to.

  • SKILL.md9.8 kB
  • agents/openai.yaml0.5 kB
  • references/cli-command-matrix.md1.1 kB
  • references/customization.template.yaml0.1 kB
  • references/customization-flow.md1.5 kB
  • references/package-resources-testing-and-builds.md2.4 kB
  • references/repo-shape-detection.md0.8 kB
  • references/workflow-policy.md0.9 kB
  • references/xcode-handoff-conditions.md0.8 kB
  • scripts/customization_config.py6.3 kB
  • scripts/run_workflow.py12.6 kB
  • references/snippets/apple-swift-package-core.md13.6 kB
What is not in it

A skill installs nothing and depends on nothing: it is a folder your client reads. This one carries 2 scripts beside the text, so the bundle is 12 files you can review in full before installing. The Apache-2.0 licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Swift Package Workflow · 7.9k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/swift-package-workflow/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/swift-package-workflow" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/swift-package-workflow ] || { mv .claude/skills/swift-package-workflow "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/swift-package-workflow" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/swift-package-workflow"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add gaelic-ghost/swift-package-workflow

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/swift-package-workflow/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/swift-package-workflow/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/swift-package-workflow" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/swift-package-workflow ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/swift-package-workflow "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/swift-package-workflow" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/swift-package-workflow" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/swift-package-workflow/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

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VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
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This release
Versionnot versioned
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencegaelic-ghost/swift-package-workflow

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