usage-description-audit

usage-description-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cruisediary/apple-app-review-skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (2,303 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An iOS configuration checker for NSUsageDescription entries in Info.plist, the file that tells Apple why an app requests sensitive access such as location.

In plain words
What is it for?
It checks an app's Info.plist for required usage descriptions and flags wording or entries that need attention before review.
Why use it?
It finds missing or unclear permission explanations that can cause App Store rejection, including requirements introduced by third-party libraries.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It checks an app's Info.plist for required usage descriptions and flags wording or entries that need attention before review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cruisediary/apple-app-review-skills/usage-description-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 usage-description-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 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,303 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 $0.00038 $0.02303
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01151
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00461
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00230

Measured 6d ago against content hash 9cc92cbafbf6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

usage-description-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 6d 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/usage-description-audit/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Usage Description Audit

Purpose

Detects missing or insufficiently descriptive NS*UsageDescription keys in Info.plist that cause guaranteed App Store rejection under Guideline 5.1.1(ii).

Apple Guideline

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

Real-World Rejection Cases

  • Case: OneSignal SDK silently added NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription dependency, app rejected for missing key even though developer never used location Source: https://github.com/OneSignal/OneSignal-iOS-SDK/issues/490 Root cause: Third-party SDK references location APIs, requiring NSUsageDescription even if app doesn't call them directly. Note: NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription is deprecated since iOS 11. The current required key is NSLocationAlwaysAndWhenInUseUsageDescription. Some older SDKs may still inject the deprecated key — add both keys if using Always authorization to cover all iOS versions.

  • Case: Urban Airship library caused rejection for NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription not set by developer Source: https://github.com/urbanairship/ios-library/issues/205 Root cause: SDK dependency chain included location APIs without developer's knowledge. Always audit Pods/ and .build/ dependency trees for injected NSUsageDescription keys after adding a new SDK.

  • Case: Generic string "App needs access" rejected — reviewer flagged as insufficient justification Source: Apple Developer Forums Root cause: Purpose strings must clearly describe the specific use case, not generic access reasons

  • Case: App declared NSCameraUsageDescription in Info.plist but had no camera feature in the UI — reviewer could not find any camera usage — rejected for requesting unnecessary permission under Guideline 5.1.1(ii) Source: Apple Developer Forums (Guideline 5.1.1 threads on unnecessary permission requests) Root cause: Requesting a permission not actually used in the app violates Guideline 5.1.1(ii); remove any NS*UsageDescription key for APIs the app does not actually call

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 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. 6d ago First seen · 161 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 9cc92cbafbf6

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usage-description-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository cruisediary/apple-app-review-skills (16 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 2,303 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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