I think in my case I found a workaround, and I'm posting it here in case it works for others too - I had SWIFT_REFLECTION_METADATA_LEVEL set to "None" for release builds. Setting this back to the default (All) seemed to do the trick and let appintentsmetadataprocessor extract the info during the archiving step. There's probably a more elegant solution, like telling the compiler to emit reflection data only for the file containing the app intents definition, so if anyone finds this workaround helpful and has a better way to do it, please shout :)