.NET MAUI — Deployment Skill

Purpose

This skill provides agents with best practices, workflows, and platform-specific guidance for building, packaging, signing, and distributing .NET MAUI applications. It covers Android, iOS, Windows, and MacCatalyst deployment, along with CI/CD recommendations.

The goal is to ensure that all deployment-related tasks follow secure, repeatable, and production-ready patterns.

Core Principles

1. •Platform correctness Each platform has unique signing, packaging, and provisioning requirements.
2. •Security Protect signing keys, certificates, and provisioning profiles.
3. •Automation Prefer CI/CD pipelines for consistent builds.
4. •Environment separation Use different configurations for Debug, Release, and Store builds.
5. •Repeatability Deployment steps should be deterministic and documented.

Supported Deployment Targets

• •Android (APK, AAB)
• •iOS (IPA)
• •Windows (MSIX)
• •MacCatalyst (App bundle)

Recommended Folder Structure

/Deployment
/Deployment/Android
/Deployment/iOS
/Deployment/Windows
/Deployment/Mac
/Deployment/CI-CD

Agent Usage Guidelines

• •When asked to “build for Android,” generate:
  • •Release build commands
  • •Signing instructions
  • •AAB packaging steps
• •When asked to “deploy to iOS,” include:
  • •Provisioning profile requirements
  • •Certificate usage
  • •IPA packaging
• •When asked to “create a CI pipeline,” generate:
  • •GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps YAML
  • •Environment variable usage
  • •Secure secrets handling
• •When asked to “prepare a store build,” apply:
  • •Release configuration
  • •AOT (where supported)
  • •Optimized linking

Out of Scope

• •Backend deployment
• •UI design
• •Authentication logic