Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode

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A widely-shared walkthrough (524 points, 221 comments) documents a full agentic workflow for building, signing, and shipping Mac and iOS apps entirely from the command line and coding agents, never opening Xcode's GUI. It details the xcodebuild, code-signing, and provisioning invocations that let an AI-driven loop own the whole build-to-App-Store pipeline. It's a concrete blueprint for treating Apple's toolchain as agent-drivable infrastructure.