Prepare and troubleshoot packaging, signing, and notarization workflows for macOS distribution. Use when asked to archive a Mac app, validate bundle structure, reason about notarization readiness, or explain distribution-only failures.
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name: packaging-notarization
description: Prepare and troubleshoot packaging, signing, and notarization workflows for macOS distribution. Use when asked to archive a Mac app, validate bundle structure, reason about notarization readiness, or explain distribution-only failures.
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# Packaging & Notarization
## Quick Start
Use this skill when the work is about shipping the app rather than merely
running it locally: archives, exported app bundles, notarization readiness,
hardened runtime, or distribution validation.
## Workflow
1. Confirm the distribution goal.
- Local archive validation
- Signed distributable app
- Notarization troubleshooting
2. Inspect the artifact.
- Validate app bundle structure.
- Check nested frameworks, helper tools, and entitlements.
3. Inspect signing and runtime prerequisites.
- Hardened runtime
- Signing identity
- Nested code signatures
- Required entitlements
4. Explain notarization readiness or failure.
- Separate packaging issues from trust-policy symptoms.
- Point to the minimum follow-up validation commands.
## Guardrails
- Do not present notarization as required for ordinary local debug runs.
- Call out when you lack the actual exported artifact and are inferring from project settings.
- Keep advice concrete and verifiable.
## Output Expectations
Provide:
- what artifact or settings were inspected
- whether the app looks distribution-ready
- the top missing prerequisite or failure mode
- the next validation or repair step
