What is asc-release-flow?

A release workflow for sending Apple app builds to TestFlight or submitting them to the App Store. TestFlight is Apple's service for distributing beta versions to testers.

Use it to upload iOS, macOS, visionOS, or tvOS builds, distribute them to testers, and prepare or submit releases for review.

It helps avoid release failures caused by reused build numbers, unresolved encryption declarations, or incorrect app and tester identifiers.

asc-release-flow — Skill for Claude Code by kumaran-is

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 kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding --skill asc-release-flow

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding/asc-release-flow"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding/asc-release-flow.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,336 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00115	$0.01336
Opus 5	$0.00057	$0.00668
Sonnet 5	$0.00023	$0.00267
Haiku 4.5	$0.00012	$0.00134

Measured 6d ago against content hash 3a58c5811057, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

asc-release-flow 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.

.claude/skills/asc-release-flow/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release flow (TestFlight and App Store)

Use this skill when you need to get a new build into TestFlight or submit to the App Store.

Iron Law

NEVER UPLOAD A BUILD WITHOUT VERIFYING ENCRYPTION COMPLIANCE IS RESOLVED AND BUILD NUMBER IS UNIQUE

Run asc-submission-health preflight checks before any App Store submission. Use asc-id-resolver to resolve all IDs before running release commands.

Preconditions

Ensure credentials are set (asc auth login or ASC_* env vars).
Use a new build number for each upload.
Prefer ASC_APP_ID or pass --app explicitly.
Build must have encryption compliance resolved (see asc-submission-health skill).

iOS Release

Preferred end-to-end commands

TestFlight:
- asc publish testflight --app <APP_ID> --ipa <PATH> --group <GROUP_ID>[,<GROUP_ID>]
- Optional: --wait, --notify, --platform, --poll-interval, --timeout
App Store:
- asc publish appstore --app <APP_ID> --ipa <PATH> --version <VERSION>
- Optional: --wait, --submit --confirm, --platform, --poll-interval, --timeout

Manual sequence (when you need more control)

Upload the build:
- asc builds upload --app <APP_ID> --ipa <PATH>
Find the build ID if needed:
- asc builds latest --app <APP_ID> [--version <VERSION>] [--platform <PLATFORM>]
TestFlight distribution:
- asc builds add-groups --build <BUILD_ID> --group <GROUP_ID>[,<GROUP_ID>]
App Store attach + submit:
- asc versions attach-build --version-id <VERSION_ID> --build <BUILD_ID>
- asc submit create --app <APP_ID> --version <VERSION> --build <BUILD_ID> --confirm
Check or cancel submission:
- asc submit status --id <SUBMISSION_ID> or --version-id <VERSION_ID>
- asc submit cancel --id <SUBMISSION_ID> --confirm

macOS Release

macOS apps are distributed as .pkg files, not .ipa.

Build and Export

See asc-xcode-build skill for full build/archive/export workflow.

Upload PKG

Upload the exported .pkg using asc:

asc builds upload \
  --app <APP_ID> \
  --pkg <PATH_TO_PKG> \
  --version <VERSION> \
  --build-number <BUILD_NUMBER> \
  --wait

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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.

6d ago First seen · 136 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 3a58c5811057

Subscribe to this mod's changes

asc-release-flow is a skill published in the GitHub repository kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding (35 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 1,336 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-03.

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