On Swift, Agents, Skills and MCP

I have been experimenting with Skills and MCP in my development workflow, so I want to document what’s been working for me.

Disclaimer, this is not a guide. Just my own personal setup.

General Skills

My favorite is superpowers. It’s my go-to for brainstorming. It helps me refine rough ideas and turn them into something concrete. It’s great for going from 0 to 1.

superpowers is language and framework agnostics, so I use it beyond Xcode projects as well.

GitHub - obra/superpowers: An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.

An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works. - obra/superpowers

Swift/iOS Specific Skills

For iOS and SwiftUI specific skills, I’m using the following. I rarely need to trigger them manually. Most of the time, they activate on their own based on the context of my instructions

GitHub - Dimillian/Skills: My Codex Skills

My Codex Skills. Contribute to Dimillian/Skills development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub - AvdLee/SwiftUI-Agent-Skill: Add expert SwiftUI Best Practices guidance to your AI coding tool (Agent Skills open format).

Add expert SwiftUI Best Practices guidance to your AI coding tool (Agent Skills open format). - AvdLee/SwiftUI-Agent-Skill

GitHub - AvdLee/Swift-Concurrency-Agent-Skill: Add expert Swift Concurrency guidance to your AI coding tool (Agent Skills open format): safe concurrency, performance optimization, and Swift 6 migration.

Add expert Swift Concurrency guidance to your AI coding tool (Agent Skills open format): safe concurrency, performance optimization, and Swift 6 migration. - AvdLee/Swift-Concurrency-Agent-Skill

GitHub - AvdLee/Swift-Testing-Agent-Skill: An agent skill focused entirely on Swift Testing, helping you write better tests, migrate from XCTest, improve test architecture, and adopt modern Swift testing patterns with confidence.

An agent skill focused entirely on Swift Testing, helping you write better tests, migrate from XCTest, improve test architecture, and adopt modern Swift testing patterns with confidence. - AvdLee/S...

UI Specific

I also gave shipswift a try, but didn’t get good results. It looks promising though, so I will keep my eyes on it.

ShipSwift - AI-Native SwiftUI Component Library

Production-ready SwiftUI components that LLMs can use to build real iOS apps. Open-source, MCP-powered.

MCP

For MCP, I am only using apple-doc-mcp. I think it’s better than sosumi .

GitHub - MightyDillah/apple-doc-mcp: MCP server providing seamless access to Apple Developer Documentation with smart search and wildcard support

MCP server providing seamless access to Apple Developer Documentation with smart search and wildcard support - MightyDillah/apple-doc-mcp

...

That’s all from me. If you have any interesting skills worth trying do recommend. Thanks for reading!