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Connects the setup engine from #510 to clerk init and clerk doctor. Web and Android behavior is unchanged: login and the global command hooks are untouched, and init's strategy, sign-in, and linking steps run exactly as before. link gains a showNextSteps option (matching login), which init turns off only for native iOS setup.

clerk init

  • After init's usual sign-in and link, an iOS project with a linked app runs native setup instead of pulling keys into .env.
  • People at a terminal get the same browser login and app picker as before. Link's closing "run clerk env pull" advice is skipped, because native setup continues right away and iOS apps don't use an env file.
  • When no Clerk registration supplies the App ID Prefix, people can pick the project's signing team or enter a different prefix, and --yes accepts the signing team (the plan notes it). An agent gets input-required with identity.suggestedAppIdPrefix, so it confirms the prefix with the user before rerunning with --app-id-prefix.
  • Agents follow the existing rules for frameworks that need an account. With --app or a linked project, setup runs. Without one, init prints how to choose an app: clerk apps list --json (after clerk auth login if needed), then clerk init --app <app_id> --json. With --json, that guidance is an application-required status, alongside the existing selection-required and input-required statuses.
  • --dry-run inspects the Xcode project and prints the plan without signing in, reading Clerk, or writing anything. It never bootstraps a new project. Capabilities and Sign in with Apple need the chosen application, so the preview says they're planned later.
  • --json prints the result and an agent handoff: the development publishable key (never a secret key), the remaining tasks, and the Xcode DEVELOPER_DIR to build with.
  • New flags: --xcode-project, --xcode-target, --xcode-configuration, --apple-sdk, --bundle-id, --app-id-prefix, --sign-in-with-apple, and --prebuilt-auth-ui. --xcode-project also selects iOS setup when there's no Xcode project at the root.
  • FrameworkInfo gains supportsDryRun and supportsJson, set for iOS. Other frameworks get "--dry-run isn't supported for yet", and the check runs before any project is created. Apple-only flags are rejected for other frameworks the same way.
  • Without Xcode (another OS, or a Mac with only the Command Line Tools), init behaves as before: it links the app, prints the manual quickstart, and pulls the key into .env. --dry-run, --json, and the Apple-only flags explain that they need Xcode.
  • Telemetry records the ios_inspect, ios_plan, and ios_apply stages.
  • Setup that succeeds exits 0 even when Swift integration or manual steps remain (the JSON status says which); a failed step exits nonzero with its cause.

clerk doctor

  • For an Xcode project (or with --xcode-*), doctor skips the env-file check, since native apps configure Clerk in Swift, and adds read-only checks: configuration coverage, SDK linkage and version, capabilities, Native API, registration, and the Apple connection.
  • Off macOS these become one warning. If inspection fails, the result shows the cause.

Tests and docs

  • New init and doctor tests for the routing, flags, and messages. Three existing init tests used iOS as their example of a native framework that pulls .env; they now use Android, which still does.
  • The iOS e2e test relinks with --mode agent, which relinks a different --app without asking, as for every framework.
  • The init and doctor READMEs describe the iOS and macOS behavior.
  • scripts/apple-setup holds the real-Xcode checks used to validate the stack, including verify-ownership.ts for entitlements shared through xcconfigs.

Depends on #510 and targets sean/native-apple-setup. Merge #509, then #510, then this PR, retargeting each to main after the one before it merges.

Validation: 3,316 unit tests pass (also run with the platform forced to Linux, as in CI), along with formatting, lint, and type checking. Both iOS E2E cases pass locally against real Xcode with a stubbed Clerk API, including dry run and agent relinking. On Xcode 27.0 RC, package resolution and an unsigned Debug build pass for iOS and macOS in both project formats. The Android E2E case and live credential-backed E2E need credentials that weren't available locally.

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clerk init adds native iOS and macOS setup options and routes supported Xcode projects through a setup coordinator. The coordinator inspects projects, gathers setup choices, and reports previews or results. clerk doctor adds read-only Apple project checks and Xcode selection options. The changes also add native project fixtures, automated setup and doctor tests, verification scripts, and setup documentation.

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  • clerk/cli#486: Extends native setup and Doctor checks to macOS and shared iOS/macOS targets, which connects to this PR’s Apple setup and diagnostics.
  • clerk/cli#490: Integrates native iOS setup into clerk init, which connects to this PR’s native init routing and setup options.

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- Run native Apple setup after init's usual sign-in and link instead of a
  separate flow; restore main's link, login, agent, and telemetry behavior.
- Prefix Apple flags (--xcode-project, --xcode-target, --xcode-configuration,
  --apple-sdk) and drop --allow-dirty.
- Add supportsDryRun/supportsJson to FrameworkInfo so other frameworks get a
  "not supported yet" error before any project is created.
- Guide agents without an app to `clerk apps list --json`, then
  `clerk init --app <id> --json`.
- Fall back to the manual quickstart and env pull without Xcode.
- Append read-only Xcode checks to doctor, skip the env file check for Apple
  projects, and warn off macOS.
- Exit 0 when manual steps remain, record ios_* telemetry stages, fold the
  native setup doc into the init README, and remove an unused fixture.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An agent running `clerk init --json` on an iOS project without an app or link
got the manual guidance only as stderr text. Print it as a JSON status, like
the existing selection-required and input-required statuses.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…eal Xcode

Add the case where the app uses one entitlements file in Debug and another
in Release, while a second target uses the Debug file only in Release.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
clerk init links the app and continues straight into native setup, so link's
closing "run clerk env pull" next steps were misleading mid-flow, and iOS
apps don't use an env file. link gains showNextSteps (matching login), and
init turns it off only for native iOS setup; other frameworks are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When no Clerk registration supplies the App ID Prefix, interactive setup
offers the signing team as a choice next to entering a different prefix, and
the plan notes when the prefix came from the signing team.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…red Apple setup in dry runs

A Mac with only the Command Line Tools now keeps init's previous flow (link,
manual steps, env pull) instead of failing at Xcode inspection. Xcode counts
as installed when xcodebuild runs or an Xcode app is in /Applications, which
JSON projects can use without xcode-select.

A dry run can't plan Sign in with Apple before an application is chosen, so
--dry-run --sign-in-with-apple now says it's deferred instead of dropping it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
clerk init --yes keeps accepting the signing team as the App ID Prefix. An
agent now gets input-required with identity.suggestedAppIdPrefix, so it can
show the suggestion to the user and rerun with --app-id-prefix.

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