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Summary

  • reject new entitlement destinations potentially owned by visionOS-only siblings, with JSON remote-platform regression coverage
  • reject ambiguous document wrappers and duplicate package identities; recheck platform membership and entitlement destinations across platform views
  • share synchronized-directory traversal with PBX inspection and keep directory-only exclusion evidence incomplete
  • support Xcode 27 project.xcproj documents alongside legacy project.pbxproj projects
  • route both formats through the same native inspection, planning, transaction, and Doctor contracts
  • inspect JSON targets, synchronized folders, source ownership, build settings, xcconfig references, Swift packages, entitlements, and platform membership
  • safely install Clerk package products and apply native setup changes while preserving unrelated project content
  • support Xcode's documented JSON5 syntax and fail closed for ambiguous wrappers, incomplete ownership, and unsupported schema shapes
  • apply build-setting source filters before deriving shipping Swift evidence
  • cover interactive target selection from JSON-format projects

Scope

This is a project-format adapter above the completed native Apple setup stack. It does not add another product workflow or change the existing PBX setup policy.

Legacy project.pbxproj projects continue through the existing implementation. A wrapper containing both formats is treated as ambiguous and is not modified.

Apple format documentation: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/updating-your-xcode-project-configuration-file-format

Validation

Current head: efae6e59a15a69e4d09d498a17e8183df61a862d.

  • Formatting, lint, typechecking, git diff --check, and all 4,281 unit tests passed. Lint retains the existing unused-parameter warning in commands/apps/shared.ts.
  • Integrated head e07409d7 passed all 4,338 unit tests and compilation. All three updated branch heads (feat(native): add macOS setup and diagnostics #486, feat(init): support Xcode JSON project format #488, fix(init): improve established Apple app setup and interactive flow #493) passed local checks independently; the earlier six branches are unchanged.
  • Regression coverage verifies unmodeled-platform entitlement ownership, the default platform-aware remote reader, and strict Associated Domain options while preserving Sign in with Apple sharing support.
  • All 36 PBX/JSON corpus scenarios passed dry run, apply, unchanged rerun, and read-only Doctor assertions as applicable. All 12 relevant unsigned shared-target builds passed (iOS Simulator and macOS). The previous 2aed604b integrated validation's 40-build result is historical; 40 builds were not rerun in this pass.
  • Four targeted Xcode ownership probes verified blocked existing-file and new-file mutations for visionOS-only siblings in PBX/JSON, with unchanged project bytes. Four real shared-project checks exercised the actual macOS remote target reader successfully.
  • Toolchains: Xcode 26.5 (17F42) for PBX and Xcode 27.2 beta (27B5019j) for JSON. APIs used read-only stubs; no live backend writes were performed.
  • Credential-backed E2E was attempted but timed out in 1Password after 45 seconds before tests started. It remains an outstanding release check, not a passing or failing test. GitHub CI was not awaited; signed-device Apple sign-in was not rerun.
  • Detailed local evidence: clerk-cli-real-xcode-corpus/reports/2026-09-25-coderabbit-followup.md. Prior 40-build and signing-output validation remains recorded in the earlier reports.

Stack

  1. feat(init): add iOS project inspection foundations #431 — native Apple project inspection foundations
  2. feat(init): add transactional native iOS mutation engines #453 — transactional local mutation engines
  3. feat(init): compose native iOS local setup #489 — native iOS local setup orchestration
  4. feat(init): reconcile native iOS backend configuration #454 — native iOS backend reconciliation
  5. feat(init): integrate native iOS setup #490 — public native iOS init integration
  6. feat(doctor): add native iOS diagnostics #455 — native iOS Doctor diagnostics
  7. feat(native): add macOS setup and diagnostics #486 — macOS setup and diagnostics
  8. feat(init): support Xcode JSON project format #488 — Xcode JSON project format
  9. fix(init): improve established Apple app setup and interactive flow #493 — established app operation gates and neutral entitlement ownership

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The iOS CLI now supports Xcode JSON project documents alongside PBX project files. It resolves and parses project documents, inspects targets, build settings, source membership, packages, and entitlements, and reports project-format diagnostics. Initialization can plan and apply SDK and entitlement changes to JSON projects. Tests cover JSON-project inspection, mutations, dry runs, target selection, registration, and reruns.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to efae6

Xcode JSON project support is broadly guarded against ambiguous project documents and conflicting entitlement ownership. Two earlier concerns still have no evidence of a fix in the reviewed changes. Package attribution when two package references share a basename may still be wrong. Symlinked directories in synchronized folders may still be left out of source membership. Confirm both before relying on JSON-project setup for those project layouts.

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In `@packages/cli-core/src/commands/init/ios/entitlements-settings.ts`:
- Around line 883-884: Update xcprojDestinationOwnershipIsExclusive to stop
skipping the selected target entirely; inspect its entitlements configurations
for platforms other than the selected platform, while continuing to inspect all
platforms for other targets, and block when another view resolves to the
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- Around line 1776-1786: Update the `documentResolution` handling in the project
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In `@packages/cli-core/src/commands/init/ios/project-document.ts`:
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from whether it is a regular file. Return ambiguous when more than one candidate
entry exists, but return found only for a single regular file; preserve missing
when the only entry is non-regular.

In `@packages/cli-core/src/commands/init/ios/xcproj-inspect.ts`:
- Around line 193-196: In inspectPackages, replace the first-match lookup for
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