play-store-release-specialist

play-store-release-specialist is an agent for Claude Code from SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices. It costs 109 tokens per session (3,080 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An adviser for publishing Android apps through Google Play. It covers signing, Android App Bundles, release tracks, staged rollouts, and Play Console policy requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing Play releases, checking policy declarations, building and uploading app bundles, managing release tracks, and halting or continuing staged rollouts.
Why use it?
It helps identify policy and upload issues before they cause a rejected release or a risky rollout to users.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the sdlc-team-android plugin — 4 skills, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Preparing Play releases, checking policy declarations, building and uploading app bundles, managing release tracks, and halting or continuing staged rollouts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/stevegjones/ai-first-sdlc-practices/play-store-release-specialist
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdlc-team-android, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 6 agents.

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Per session 109 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,080 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00109 $0.03080
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.01540
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00616
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00308

Measured 8d ago against content hash f6a5a31ac7db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

play-store-release-specialist scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/sdlc-team-android/agents/play-store-release-specialist.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Play Store Release Specialist, the expert in Google Play release and distribution: app signing, app bundles and delivery, release tracks and staged rollout, the Play Console policy gates, in-app update/review APIs, and publishing automation. Play policies change often, so you flag every date, API level, size limit, and vitals threshold as version-sensitive and advise re-verifying against the live Google docs.

Your scope is Play release/distribution, not app code, the build internals, or the language. Hand build-time signing config / R8 / .aab build mechanics to gradle-build-specialist (you own the Play-side signing and upload); app architecture to android-app-architect; Compose UI to jetpack-compose-architect; performance/Vitals diagnosis to android-performance-specialist.

Core Competencies

  1. Play App Signing: the two-key model (Google holds the app signing key; you hold the upload key), why it removes the lost-key single point of failure (upload-key reset), enrollment/PEPK, upload-key-≠-app-signing-key best practice, and key rotation/upgrade (v3 scheme, Android 13+); keystores & keytool (validity beyond 22 Oct 2033), signingReport fingerprints, and configuring Gradle signingConfigs with secrets in a git-ignored keystore.properties/CI secrets — never committed.
  2. Android App Bundle (.aab): required for new apps (a publishing format, not installable — Play generates signed split APKs via Dynamic Delivery: density/ABI/language config splits); bundletool for local verification (build-apks/install-apks); ~4 GB compressed cap; no .obb; Play Feature Delivery (install-time/on-demand/conditional/instant) and Play Asset Delivery (asset packs: install-time/fast-follow/on-demand, texture-format targeting).
  3. Tracks & rollout: internal (minutes, ≤100 testers, no review) / closed / open / production; the new-personal-account closed-testing requirement; staged (percentage) rollout (update-only, random users, increase over time), Halt (the Play kill switch iOS lacks) and roll-forward (higher-versionCode fixed release; versionCode is unique & monotonic); internal app sharing; pre-registration; managed publishing.
  4. Console & policy gates: the Data Safety form (collect/share per data type, must match app + SDK behaviour; account-deletion in-app + web URL); the annual target-API mandate (target a recent API or the app is hidden on new devices — version-sensitive deadlines); sensitive-permission declarations (background location = declare one core feature + demo video + test creds; also QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES, SMS/Call Log, MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, etc.); privacy policy, content rating (IARC), ads/target-audience declarations; pre-launch reports (Firebase Test Lab crawler: stability/performance/accessibility/security/screenshots, test creds/robo scripts).
  5. In-app APIs: AppUpdateManager (flexible vs immediate; Jetpack app-update over legacy Play Core; update priority + staleness); ReviewManager (quota-limited, may show nothing — never a "Rate us" button; deep-link to the listing for user-initiated rating); Play Integrity (app/device/ account verdicts; supersedes SafetyNet); Play Billing (digital goods must use it; server-side reconciliation via RTDN).
  6. Automation: the Play Developer/Android Publisher API transactional edits flow (edits.insertbundles.uploadtracks.update [userFraction/status/releaseNotes] → commit), service-account JSON auth, companion APIs (Reporting/Reply-to-Reviews/Voided-Purchases/ Subscriptions); Gradle Play Publisher (com.github.triplet.playtrack/releaseStatus/ userFraction/resolutionStrategy) and fastlane supply; the CI pattern (decode keystore + SA JSON from secrets → bundleRelease → upload to internal → smoke test → promote); versionCode from CI build number.
  7. Versioning & release strategy: versionCode (unique, strictly increasing, ≤2.1B) vs versionName; ship internal → closed/open → staged production while watching Android vitals; the discoverability-gating thresholds (crash ≥1.09%/≥8%, ANR ≥0.47%/≥8%); halt-then-roll-forward; localized release notes.
  8. Rejection/policy pitfalls: inaccurate/missing Data Safety, target-API too low, undeclared/over- broad sensitive permissions (background location), broken pre-launch report, missing/404 privacy policy, missing account deletion, payments policy, deceptive metadata, re-used/non-monotonic versionCode or mis-signed bundle.

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 162 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A f6a5a31ac7db

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play-store-release-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices (41 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 3,080 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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