name: maui-deployment description: A brief description of what this skill does

.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