Orchestrator for the swift-tothemax plugin — routes any Apple-platform development task (building an iOS/macOS app, adding a feature, preparing a release, fixing a rejection) to the right combination of skills in the correct order. Use this skill FIRST whenever a task spans more than one facet of Apple development — e.g. "build me an app that…", "get my app ready for the App Store", "add a subscription", "my app was rejected", "audit my app" — or when unsure which Swift/Apple skill applies. It coordinates swift-language, swiftui-max, apple-hig-ux, app-review-max, apple-legal-max, and apple-release-ops, plus well-known ecosystem skills when installed.
Orchestrator for the swift-tothemax plugin — routes any Apple-platform development task (building an iOS/macOS app, adding a feature, preparing a release, fixing a rejection) to the right combination of skills in the correct order. Use this skill FIRST whenever a task spans more than one facet of Apple development — e.g. "build me an app that…", "get my app ready for the App Store", "add a subscription", "my app was rejected", "audit my app" — or when unsure which Swift/Apple skill applies. It coordinates swift-language, swiftui-max, apple-hig-ux, app-review-max, apple-legal-max, and apple-release-ops, plus well-known ecosystem skills when installed.
Apple Dev Conductor
You are orchestrating a suite of skills that each own one facet of Apple-platform development. Your job: decompose the task into facets, invoke the right skills in the right order, and keep their outputs consistent.
The suite (this plugin)
Skill
Owns
Typical trigger
swift-language
Swift 6.x language, concurrency, performance, SwiftPM, interop, testing
Shipping mechanics: signing, TestFlight, App Store Connect, CI/CD
build/upload/release
ui-crawler-max
Autonomous UI crawl: explore every screen, capture errors/crashes with repro steps, Haiku data labeling
"test the app", QA sweep, "find crashes"
Lifecycle routing
Work through stages in order; skip stages the task doesn't touch. At each stage read the named skill's SKILL.md and follow it.
Shape — what are we building? → apple-hig-ux (platform idioms, navigation pattern, screen patterns).
Architect & build — swift-language (types, concurrency, data flow) + swiftui-max (views, state). These two always load together for app code: language owns everything below the view layer.
Feature compliance gates (do EARLY, not at submission):
Collects data / has accounts / tracking / kids / subscriptions? → apple-legal-max (privacy manifest, labels, required documents) and app-review-max → references/monetization-compliance.md for anything paid.
Account creation ⇒ account deletion (5.1.1(v)); tracking ⇒ ATT; these are cheaper to design in than retrofit.
Quality pass — apple-hig-ux → references/accessibility.md audit; swift-language review checklist; tests per swift-language → references/testing.md; then a ui-crawler-max sweep — crawl every screen, harvest console errors/crashes/unlabeled controls, and feed the findings back to swiftui-max (implementation), apple-hig-ux (design/accessibility), or swift-language (logic) for fixes.
Ship — apple-release-ops (signing, TestFlight, CI) then app-review-max → references/submission-checklist.md as the final gate.
Ecosystem companions (use when installed, suggest when not)
Check the available-skills list for these before working; they deepen specific facets. If one is present, prefer its specialized workflow for that sub-task and keep this plugin's skills for current-2026 facts and cross-facet flow.
asc-metadata-sync etc. (rudrankriyam ASC CLI suite)
scripted App Store Connect metadata ops
apple-release-ops
apple-hig (nexu-io)
extra HIG lookups
apple-hig-ux
Install commands live in the plugin README (npx skills add <owner/repo@skill>).
Conflict resolution rules
Skills overlap; that's by design. When two sources disagree:
Facts about versions, policies, legal requirements: this plugin's skills win — they are dated (mid-2026) and research-verified. Companions may predate policy changes.
Workflow depth (how to run a review, how to structure a test suite): the specialized companion wins.
Style: match the codebase first, then swift-language defaults.
Never apply two overlapping checklists blindly — merge, dedupe, and run once.
Handoff conventions
When a stage produces decisions (chosen navigation pattern, data types collected, monetization model), carry them forward explicitly — later skills need them (data types → nutrition labels; monetization → review guidelines).
Anything marked beta (iOS 27 / Swift 6.4) in one skill stays beta-flagged in all downstream output.
The final deliverable of a multi-facet task should state which facets were checked and which were consciously skipped.
