Occasionally xcsentinel gets stuck and unresponsive

[PaulSolt]

I'm struggling to understand how to use xcsentinel and sometimes it hangs and never responds. I'm hoping it can help me get more predictable error detection (many times my Claude Code or Codex reports no errors or no failed tests - #1 could be useful)

Sometimes running make before can help, but other times it doesn't.

I installed xcodemake to see if that would help, but it still gets stuck sometimes.

xcsentinel run --project FocusStackDemo.xcodeproj --scheme FocusStackDemo --destination 'platform=iOS Simulator,name=iPhone 16 Pro,OS=latest' --json

QUESTION: I'm sometimes editing files in an SPM package, and that package is stored a level up from the project. (Do local packages need to be in the project directory? Or added as dependencies)

├── claude.md
├── FocusStackDemo
│   ├── FocusStackDemo
│   │   └── FocusStackDemoApp.swift
│   ├── FocusStackDemo.xcodeproj
│   │   ├── project.pbxproj
│   │   ├── project.xcworkspace
│   │   ├── xcshareddata
│   │   └── xcuserdata
│   ├── FocusStackDemo.xctestplan
│   ├── FocusStackDemoTests
│   │   └── FocusStackDemoTests.swift
│   ├── FocusStackDemoUITests
│   │   └── UITests.swift
│   ├── FocusStackSpike.xctestplan
│   ├── Makefile
│   └── scripts
├── Packages
│   └── FocusStackSpike
│       ├── Package.swift
│       ├── Sources
│       └── Tests