appstore-review

appstore-review is a skill for Claude Code from alamops/skills. It costs 231 tokens per session (3,624 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only review of an iOS app against Apple's current App Store Review Guidelines. Those guidelines are Apple's rules for deciding whether an app can be published in the App Store.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for pre-submission audits, App Store readiness checks, and questions about whether a specific app feature may violate Apple's rules.
Why use it?
It helps find likely rejection issues before submitting an app, TestFlight build, or update for review.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the alamops-skills plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for pre-submission audits, App Store readiness checks, and questions about whether a specific app feature may violate Apple's rules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alamops/skills/appstore-review
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 alamops/skills --skill appstore-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alamops/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install alamops-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 231 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,624 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

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    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00231 $0.03624
Opus 5 $0.00115 $0.01812
Sonnet 5 $0.00046 $0.00725
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00362

Measured 9d ago against content hash c2286981b231, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

appstore-review 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 9d 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.

skills/appstore-review/SKILL.md · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

App Store guideline review

A read-only audit skill: review a project against Apple's live App Store Review Guidelines and report whether it would survive App Review. Tone: pragmatic reviewer who has shipped apps and knows which rules actually get apps bounced.

Why this skill exists

Apple's guidelines drift. Numbering, examples, and required disclosures change several times a year (App Tracking Transparency, required-reason API list, alternative-payment language, AI / generated-content rules, account-deletion mandates, etc.). Reviewing against a snapshot in the model's head is how teams ship rejections. You must pull the current guidelines from the web at the start of every run. If the fetch fails, say so plainly and stop — do not guess from training data.

The 6-step workflow

1. Pull the live guidelines

Fetch (in this order; stop at the first that succeeds):

  1. https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ — the canonical, full text
  2. If WebFetch returns a paywalled or truncated page, fall back to WebSearch with site:developer.apple.com "App Store Review Guidelines" and follow the top result

Then also fetch the supporting pages that are referenced from the guidelines and routinely cause rejections:

  • App Tracking Transparency requirements (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apptrackingtransparency)
  • Required Reason API list (search apple required reason api)
  • App Privacy / privacy-manifest spec (search apple privacy manifest PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy)
  • The latest "What's new in App Review" / Apple Developer news entry, if one is current

Cache the fetched text into the skill working memory for the rest of the run — don't refetch per sub-agent. If the user passes a guideline number directly (e.g., "check rule 5.1.1"), still pull the live page once so the wording you cite is current.

If you cannot reach developer.apple.com (offline, blocked, rate-limited), abort with: "I couldn't fetch the live App Store guidelines. I won't review from cached knowledge — please retry when the network is reachable, or paste the relevant sections."

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 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. 9d ago First seen · 205 lines · 231 tokens per session scan A c2286981b231

Subscribe to this mod's changes

appstore-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository alamops/skills (48 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 231 tokens to every session and 3,624 once invoked, about $0.0012 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 2026-08-30.

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