ios-app-store-validator

A rule set for checking iOS project settings against Apple’s App Store Review Guidelines, the rules Apple uses when reviewing apps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it while editing an iOS project’s Info.plist, privacy manifest, entitlements, and Swift code, especially before submitting an app.
Why use it?
It helps catch missing permission explanations, incorrect privacy declarations, unused entitlements, private APIs, deprecated frameworks, and other rejection risks.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/gygantskiymatilyock/ios-developer-agents/ios-app-store-validator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gygantskiyMatilyock/ios-developer-agents

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 344 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00344
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00172
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00034

Measured yesterday against content hash 11141ead6108, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ios-app-store-validator 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 yesterday.

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.

.cursor/rules/ios-app-store-validator.mdc · 46 lines

What it actually says

iOS App Store Validator

When working with iOS project configuration files, validate against Apple's App Store Review Guidelines.

Check Info.plist For

  • Required usage description strings (NSCameraUsageDescription, NSMicrophoneUsageDescription, NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription, NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription, etc.)
  • User-friendly descriptions explaining WHY permission is needed
  • UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities correctly declared
  • CFBundleIdentifier, CFBundleVersion, CFBundleShortVersionString properly set
  • No placeholder text remaining
  • LSApplicationQueriesSchemes declared if querying other apps

Check Privacy Manifest (PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy) For

  • File exists if using required reason APIs
  • NSPrivacyTracking accurately reflects IDFA usage
  • NSPrivacyTrackingDomains lists all tracking domains
  • NSPrivacyCollectedDataTypes matches actual data collection
  • NSPrivacyAccessedAPITypes covers all required reason APIs

Check Entitlements For

  • Only request entitlements actually used
  • Associated domains properly configured for universal links
  • Special entitlements documented with explanations

Check Swift Code For

  • No private API usage
  • No deprecated frameworks that cause rejection
  • No competitor platform references ("Android", "Google Play")
  • ATT implementation if using IDFA
  • Background modes justified with actual functionality

Output

Flag issues as:

  • BLOCKER: Will cause rejection (cite guideline number)
  • WARNING: May cause rejection (include risk level)
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. yesterday First seen · 46 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 11141ead6108

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ios-app-store-validator is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository gygantskiyMatilyock/ios-developer-agents (30 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 344 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.