What is ios-shipkit?

iOS ShipKit is a set of instructions and templates meant to help a solo developer take an iPhone app idea all the way to the App Store using Claude Code, an AI coding assistant. The README explains that building an app with an AI agent tends to fail in a few common ways, such as work sessions that run too long, features marked as finished that nobody actually tested, requirements that keep changing mid conversation, and code that compiles but was never really planned out. This project is a fixed process meant to prevent those specific problems. The free part of the repository includes two of these process templates, called skills, written as plain markdown files a developer can read and edit directly. The first one turns a rough app idea into a detailed written plan, covering the app's screens, how a user moves between them, the data structure in Swift, and how the app might make money. The second template turns that plan into a build schedule broken into phases, where each phase is sized to fit in a single AI coding session and ends with a real test performed on the iPhone simulator, such as adding an item, force quitting the app, and confirming the item is still there after reopening it. The repository also includes one full worked example, a small app called FridgeFriend for tracking food in your fridge, showing the entire process from initial idea through finished SwiftUI source code and an App Store listing draft, so a reader can judge the quality of the output directly. Installing it means cloning the repository and copying the skill files into a Claude Code configuration folder. The free templates are released under the MIT license, while a larger paid pack covering more of the process is sold separately.