AI coding agents are a great match for everyday web development, but they tend to fall apart the moment a Capacitor project crosses into native territory — Xcode toolchains, Gradle versions, signing certificates, plugin configuration, and a dozen other details that aren't well represented in their training data. In this guide, you'll learn how to set up an AI agent so it can confidently support you through the entire Capacitor app lifecycle: creating a new app, adding plugins, building, debugging, deploying, and maintaining it over time. Why General-Purpose AI Agents Struggle with Capacitor Capacitor sits at the intersection of web and native, and that's exactly where general-purpose AI agents tend to break down. Bumping an Android compileSdkVersion , wiring up an iOS entitlement, or migrating a project from CocoaPods to Swift Package Manager involves platform-specific steps that change with every release.…