[Feature] Support global/user-level config location (e.g. ~/.xcodebuildmcp/)

[mdoukmak]

Currently .xcodebuildmcp/config.yaml is always created at the workspace root. This means every project that uses XcodeBuildMCP gets this directory, and each one needs to add it to .gitignore.

Request: Support a global/user-level config location (e.g. ~/.config/xcodebuildmcp/ or ~/.xcodebuildmcp/) for defaults that apply across all projects, with project-level config optionally overriding it.

This would:

• Avoid polluting project directories with tool-specific config
• Remove the need to add .xcodebuildmcp/ to every repo's .gitignore
• Follow the convention of tools like git (~/.gitconfig + .git/config), where user-level and project-level configs coexist

[cameroncooke]

This has been implemented and is available on main it will be included in next release. You can test now by updating your MCP config to use npx https://pkg.pr.new/getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP/xcodebuildmcp@bfa9fef mcp

[BobbyRohweder]

Was this implemented?
is there documentation or a PR to reference?

[cameroncooke]

Reopening as this wasn't implemented. I must have closed this in error.

[cameroncooke]

I don't agree that adding .xcodebuildmcp is any more polluting than any other type of project level dot file. The reason its project level is so it can be committed to source control for teams.

A global config wouldn't be able to support session defaults as project settings like project path and workspace path etc are clearly project specific not something you could define globally.

That said we could add a subset of configuration support to global configuration for sure.

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