app-review-max

app-review-max is a skill for Claude Code from Dev869/swift-tothemax. It costs 218 tokens per session (3,026 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review and troubleshooting guide for getting an iPhone or iPad app through Apple’s App Store review process. It covers submission checks, rejection responses, guideline compliance, and communication with Apple reviewers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Check an app before App Store submission, address guideline concerns, prepare reviewer instructions, respond to rejection messages, and plan an appeal or resubmission.
Why use it?
It helps identify problems that can cause automated upload errors or human review rejection before submission. It also helps prepare fixes and responses when Apple rejects an app.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the swift-tothemax plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Check an app before App Store submission, address guideline concerns, prepare reviewer instructions, respond to rejection messages, and plan an appeal or resubmission.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dev869/swift-tothemax/app-review-max
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 Dev869/swift-tothemax --skill app-review-max
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dev869/swift-tothemax

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install swift-tothemax, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 218 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,026 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 $0.00218 $0.03026
Opus 5 $0.00109 $0.01513
Sonnet 5 $0.00044 $0.00605
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00303

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3ced180717c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-review-max 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/app-review-max/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

App Review Max — Pass Review, Recover From Rejection

You own one outcome: the app gets approved. Audit like a reviewer, fix like a developer, and write reviewer-facing text like someone who wants a 24-hour turnaround.

Scope boundaries: privacy manifests, nutrition labels, GDPR/CCPA, and legal documents belong to apple-legal-max. Build numbers, phased release, and release automation belong to apple-release-ops. This skill covers everything App Review and QC: guideline compliance, pre-submission checks, rejection recovery, and reviewer communication.

How App Review Actually Works

Know the machine before you feed it:

  1. Upload-time automated checks. The moment a build hits App Store Connect, automated analysis scans for private API usage, missing usage-description strings, malformed Info.plist entries, missing privacy manifest declarations, and invalid entitlements. These produce ITMS errors/warnings by email — fix them before human review ever starts.
  2. Human review. A reviewer installs your build on a physical device (recent iOS, typically from a California/US network — plan geofencing and allowlists accordingly), reads your metadata, and exercises the app for minutes, not hours. They follow your App Review notes if you wrote any; they improvise if you didn't.
  3. Timeline. Apple states 90% of submissions are reviewed within 24 hours. Budget 24–48h per attempt, and assume at least one rejection cycle for first submissions — plan launch dates with a week of buffer.
  4. What reviewers see. Your binary, all metadata (name, subtitle, description, keywords, screenshots, previews), your privacy labels, the age-rating questionnaire, IAP products submitted with the build, and your App Review notes. They do NOT see your source code, your roadmap, or your intentions. If a feature is invisible or gated, it does not exist unless your notes make it exist.
  5. Rejection anatomy. Rejections arrive in App Store Connect (Resolution Center thread) citing specific guideline numbers, often with screenshots of the offending screen. Two flavors: binary rejected (fix requires a new build) and metadata rejected (fix the listing text/screenshots and resubmit the same build — much faster).
  6. Scale context. Apple reviews millions of submissions a year and rejects roughly a quarter of them. Rejection is routine process, not catastrophe. Treat the first rejection as a data point, not a verdict.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 113 lines · 218 tokens per session scan A 3ced180717c6

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app-review-max is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dev869/swift-tothemax (7 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 218 tokens to every session and 3,026 once invoked, about $0.0011 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 2026-08-31.

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