.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.

1. Security

Protect signing keys, certificates, and provisioning profiles.

1. Automation

Prefer CI/CD pipelines for consistent builds.

1. Environment separation

Use different configurations for Debug, Release, and Store builds.

1. 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