diff --git a/nix/dev-shell.nix b/nix/dev-shell.nix
--- a/nix/dev-shell.nix
+++ b/nix/dev-shell.nix
@@ -107,9 +107,14 @@
 
   # shell commands to be ran upon entering shell
   shellHook = ''
+    PRJ_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
+
     # Set development environment variable defaults
     source "${../scripts/source_development_defaults.sh}"
 
+    # Cache development path for some use cases such as XCode
+    "$PRJ_ROOT/scripts/save_path.sh"
+
   ''
   # Darwin condition can be removed once linux services are supported
   + lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin ''
diff --git a/scripts/save_path.sh b/scripts/save_path.sh
new file mode 100755
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/save_path.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Save the `PATH` to a known location, this is to aide with xcode which will
+# unset all environment variables before attempting builds
+
+COMM_CACHE="${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/comm"
+
+mkdir -p "$COMM_CACHE"
+
+echo "export PATH=$PATH\${PATH:+:}\"\$PATH\"" > "$COMM_CACHE"/path