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cometchat-ios-core

Add CometChat chat to an iOS app end-to-end — detect the project, get & verify dashboard credentials, init→login→render, and the drop-in conversation UI composed into a chat screen. The core knowledge every other iOS skill builds on. Triggers: 'integrate cometchat swift', 'set up cometchat credentials ios', 'show conversations and messages ios'.

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> **Ground truth:** `CometChatUIKitSwift` 5.1.22 (a prebuilt binary xcframework) + `CometChatSDK` 4.1.7. Every symbol below is verified against the shipped `.swiftinterface` (`catalogs/ios-v5.json`); the golden-path composition and its layout constraints are verified on a simulator by the native harness, not reasoned from the web pack. This file is the THIN map loaded every run; deep detail lives in `references/*`, loaded only when the task needs it.

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## Use this skill when
"add chat to my iOS app", "integrate CometChat in Swift", "set up CometChat credentials", "show a conversations + messages screen", "build a chat app". An unscoped "add chat" means a **production-ready core chat surface** — a `CometChatConversations` list that pushes to a chat screen you compose — NOT a bare list, and NOT the whole combined app. It **grows on request** (users/groups tabs, group details, threads, calls); those recipes live in `cometchat-ios-placement` and `cometchat-ios-features`.

## Three things that are NOT like the web UI Kit
Setter-based API (not props) · **no** composite component in v5 (the `*WithMessages` names are v4) · navigation stack, not side-by-side panes. Full detail + why each one compiles-but-fails: `references/anti-patterns.md`.

## Install — Swift Package Manager only
**SPM only. Never CocoaPods**, even if a `Podfile` exists (its distribution is winding down; a Podfile is a detection signal, not an instruction). Add three packages at EXACT versions — the kit is a prebuilt binary compiled against one Chat SDK version and SPM will not resolve that transitively: `CometChatUIKitSwift` **5.1.22** · `CometChatSDK` **4.1.7** · `CometChatCallsSDK` **5.0.3** (required even for chat-only — see `references/install.md` for the repos, the Calls-SDK reason, and the Xcode steps).
> **Why `CometChatSDK` 4.1.7 and not the newer 4.1.9 in the docs' setup pages:** these are the versions the pinned 5.1.22 UI Kit binary was built and verified against here (catalog + simulator smoke). The kit is a prebuilt xcframework that links a specific Chat SDK — bumping only `CometChatSDK` risks a binary-compat mismatch SPM won't catch. Do NOT flip the pin on your own; it moves together with the UI Kit when this pack next upgrades the iOS family.