apple-router

apple-router is a skill for Claude Code from markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills. It costs 100 tokens per session (1,331 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A dispatcher for broad Apple app requests that selects the more specific development skill or skills needed. It also orders those skills and identifies when foundational product or marketing information is missing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for requests such as growing an app, preparing it for launch, improving App Store results, or deciding what to work on next.
Why use it?
It helps turn a vague goal into a practical sequence of app-development tasks instead of choosing an unsuitable specialist task.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it for requests such as growing an app, preparing it for launch, improving App Store results, or deciding what to work on next.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills/apple-router
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-router
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.

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README.md
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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,331 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 $0.00100 $0.01331
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.00665
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00133

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5f08d678351b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apple-router 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 8d 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-router/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple Router

Turn a fuzzy goal into the right skill, in the right order. When a request is broad ("grow my app", "get ready to launch", "why is revenue flat"), don't guess — map the goal to the lifecycle stage, hand off to the specific skill(s), and sequence them. This skill routes; the named skills do the work.

If the request already names a clear task (e.g. "audit my keywords", "fix this rejection"), skip the router and go straight to that skill. Use this only to disambiguate.


How to route

  1. Classify the intent into a stage (table below).
  2. If foundational context is missing, run the foundation skill first: app-marketing-context for any growth/marketing work, product-spec for a feature.
  3. Dispatch to the matched skill(s).
  4. If the goal spans stages, run them in the order given and tell the user the sequence up front.

Intent → skill map

Discovery & growth ("more installs", "rank higher", "grow")

The user wants… Route to
Set up reusable marketing context first app-marketing-context (do this before the rest)
Rank for more / better keywords, audit the listing asc-aso
Run paid acquisition on the App Store apple-search-ads
Plan a launch or major-version release app-launch
Get featured by Apple editors app-store-featured
Brand, icon, screenshots, marketing assets app-brand-identityapp-icon-composer

Conversion & money ("more revenue", "improve the paywall")

The user wants… Route to
Design / fix the paywall paywall-design
Set or restructure pricing app-store-pricing
Implement purchases in code storekit-purchases
Manage the subscriber journey (trials, churn, win-back) subscription-lifecycle

Activation & retention ("users drop off", "keep users")

The user wants… Route to
Fix the first-run / onboarding flow onboarding-optimization
Improve D1/D7/D30 retention retention-optimization
Decide what to measure app-analytics
Get more / better ratings rating-prompt-strategy
Respond to and learn from reviews review-management
Re-engage with notifications push-notifications

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. 8d ago First seen · 96 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 5f08d678351b

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apple-router is a skill published in the GitHub repository markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills (5 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 1,331 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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