request-timing-audit

request-timing-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cruisediary/apple-app-review-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,471 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An audit that checks whether an iOS or macOS app asks for permissions only when the user needs the related feature. It uses Apple's app-review rules as its reference.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before submitting an iOS or macOS app to review when location and other permission requests are triggered.
Why use it?
Permission prompts shown at launch can confuse users and cause an app to be rejected. The audit identifies requests that appear too early or lack useful context.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it before submitting an iOS or macOS app to review when location and other permission requests are triggered.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cruisediary/apple-app-review-skills/request-timing-audit
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 cruisediary/apple-app-review-skills --skill request-timing-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cruisediary/apple-app-review-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,471 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 $0.00047 $0.01471
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00736
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00294
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00147

Measured 7d ago against content hash 59f1a659d005, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

request-timing-audit 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 7d 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/permissions/request-timing-audit/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Request Timing Audit

Purpose

Detects permission requests triggered at app launch or before meaningful user interaction, which violates Guideline 5.1.1(ii) requiring permissions to be requested only at the moment of need with contextual explanation.

Apple Guideline

  • Primary: 5.1.1(ii) — Data Collection and Storage: Permission Request Context
  • Related: 5.1.1(i), 5.1.2
  • Reference: references/guidelines/5-legal.md

Real-World Rejection Cases

  • Case: App requested location permission in applicationDidFinishLaunching before any user interaction — rejected Source: Apple Developer Forums Root cause: Permissions must be requested at the moment they are needed, with context explaining why — launching the app does not constitute a moment of need

Trigger

Invoke on any iOS/macOS project to verify permission prompts are contextually timed and not presented at app launch.

Inputs

Name Type Default Description
project_root path cwd iOS/macOS project root
shared_context object nil Pre-collected context from appstore-full-audit Phase 1

Actions

Phase 1: Context Collection

Skip this phase if shared_context is provided.

  1. Glob **/AppDelegate.swift — locate AppDelegate.
  2. Glob **/SceneDelegate.swift — locate SceneDelegate.
  3. Glob **/*.swift — collect all Swift source files.
  4. Glob **/*.m — collect Objective-C source files.

Phase 2: Checks

  1. Location permission at launch Grep pattern requestWhenInUseAuthorization|requestAlwaysAuthorization in AppDelegate.swift and SceneDelegate.swift. Any match found in applicationDidFinishLaunching, application(_:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:), scene(_:willConnectTo:), or sceneDidBecomeActive → 🟠 HIGH. Permission should be deferred until the feature requiring location is actually invoked.

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 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. 7d ago First seen · 124 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 59f1a659d005

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request-timing-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository cruisediary/apple-app-review-skills (16 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,471 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-05.

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