apple-review

apple-review is a skill for Claude Code from markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills. It costs 88 tokens per session (5,096 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A full review of an iOS app from four angles: interface design, code structure, App Store rules, and the quality of its product presentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before an App Store submission, after a major feature, during quality audits, or when preparing an app for Apple recognition.
Why use it?
It helps find problems that could make an app confusing, difficult to maintain, rejected by Apple, or hard to demonstrate convincingly.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the apple-dev-skills plugin — 62 skills, 25 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it before an App Store submission, after a major feature, during quality audits, or when preparing an app for Apple recognition.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install apple-dev-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 62 skills, 25 commands, 7 agents.

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 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,096 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 $0.00088 $0.05096
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.02548
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.01019
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00510

Measured 9d ago against content hash a0d9d7779524, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apple-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.

platforms/claude/skills/apple-review/SKILL.md · 393 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 393 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple Review

A comprehensive, multi-perspective review that examines an app the way Apple would — from the obsessive design eye of their best designers, the architectural rigor of their engineering leads, the checklist discipline of App Review, and the product vision clarity required before anything earns a keynote slide.

This goes deeper than a session review (which checks recent changes) or /apple-patterns-check (which validates code patterns). This skill evaluates the entire app experience as a cohesive product.

When to Use

  • Before a major App Store submission
  • Periodic quality audits ("how good is this app, really?")
  • After completing a significant feature milestone
  • When you want an honest, Apple-caliber critique
  • When preparing for Apple Design Award consideration

HARD RULE: Presented vs Dormant vs Debug-Only

Every panel MUST verify that any view it critiques is actually reachable from the running app in a Release build before treating it as a runtime UX/engineering problem. Defined-but-unpresented views, and views only reachable in DEBUG builds, are completely different finding classes than shipping-but-flawed views.

Before any Critical Issue / Cringe Moment cites a full-screen view, modal, sheet, or flow, the panel MUST run at least one reverse-reference search and report one of:

  • [shipped] — citing the file:line of the .sheet / .fullScreenCover / NavigationLink / direct embed / NavigationDestination that presents the view from the live app graph in Release builds.
  • [wired-behind-flag] — presentation exists but gated by a feature flag or remote setting that could be enabled in Release; cite the gate.
  • [debug-only] — presentation only occurs inside #if DEBUG, a developer menu, a launch-argument check, or similar. Cite the gate. Users will never see this in shipped builds — Compliance and Keynote panels must treat as out of scope; Engineering may still flag if it leaks symbols/secrets into Release.
  • [dormant] — the view has no call site outside its own file and previews. In this case the finding must be reframed as "dormant code — ship it, stage it, or delete it?" NOT as a user-facing UX flaw.

Read the full file on GitHub · 393 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 · 393 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A a0d9d7779524

Subscribe to this mod's changes

apple-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills (5 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 5,096 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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