asc-build-lifecycle

asc-build-lifecycle is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Abdullah4AI/apple-developer-toolkit. It costs 31 tokens per session (329 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of appstore-build-monitor, MIT.

A guide to managing uploaded app builds in App Store Connect, Apple’s service for distributing apps and beta versions. It covers finding builds, checking processing, publishing to TestFlight or the App Store, and expiring old builds.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find the latest or recent builds, inspect their processing state, publish an IPA to TestFlight or the App Store, and preview or apply build expiration.
Why use it?
It helps track whether a build is ready and provides a clear way to wait for processing or remove builds that are no longer needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to find the latest or recent builds, inspect their processing state, publish an IPA to TestFlight or the App Store, and preview or apply build expiration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abdullah4ai/apple-developer-toolkit/asc-build-lifecycle
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Abdullah4AI/apple-developer-toolkit --skill asc-build-lifecycle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abdullah4AI/apple-developer-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 329 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 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00031 $0.00329
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00132
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00033

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4e48260bfcef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

asc-build-lifecycle 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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to appstore-build-monitor — 14 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

swiftship/internal/skills/data/features/asc-build-lifecycle/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

asc build lifecycle

Use this skill to manage build state, processing, and retention.

Find the right build

  • Latest build:
    • asc builds latest --app "APP_ID" --version "1.2.3" --platform IOS
  • Recent builds:
    • asc builds list --app "APP_ID" --sort -uploadedDate --limit 10

Inspect processing state

  • asc builds info --build "BUILD_ID"

Distribution flows

  • Prefer end-to-end:
    • asc publish testflight --app "APP_ID" --ipa "./app.ipa" --group "GROUP_ID" --wait
    • asc publish appstore --app "APP_ID" --ipa "./app.ipa" --version "1.2.3" --wait --submit --confirm

Cleanup

  • Preview expiration:
    • asc builds expire-all --app "APP_ID" --older-than 90d --dry-run
  • Apply expiration:
    • asc builds expire-all --app "APP_ID" --older-than 90d --confirm
  • Single build:
    • asc builds expire --build "BUILD_ID"

Notes

  • asc builds upload prepares upload operations only; use asc publish for end-to-end flows.
  • For long processing times, use --wait, --poll-interval, and --timeout where supported.
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. 1mo ago First seen · 35 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 4e48260bfcef

Subscribe to this mod's changes

asc-build-lifecycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abdullah4AI/apple-developer-toolkit (11 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 329 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to appstore-build-monitor, differing in 14 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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