asc-submission

asc-submission is a skill for Claude Code from markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills. It costs 78 tokens per session (3,160 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A preparation workflow for sending an Apple app to the App Store or distributing it through TestFlight, Apple's beta-testing service. It checks the app version, signing setup, required capabilities, and submission information through App Store Connect.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare an App Store review, update release notes and metadata, check submission readiness, or distribute a build to TestFlight.
Why use it?
App submissions can fail because of missing metadata, incorrect signing, or mismatches between the project and Apple's developer settings. This finds readiness problems before or during submission preparation.

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 to prepare an App Store review, update release notes and metadata, check submission readiness, or distribute a build to TestFlight.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills/asc-submission
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills --skill asc-submission
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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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,160 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 $0.00078 $0.03160
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01580
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00632
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00316

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1a711900c715, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

asc-submission 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 5d 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/asc-submission/SKILL.md · 262 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 262 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ASC Submission

Prepare apps for App Store review or TestFlight distribution using the App Store Connect MCP server.

Workflows

Workflow A: Full Submission Readiness Check

When the user asks to prepare or check submission readiness, run steps 1–2 sequentially then dispatch parallel validation.

  1. Get app ID: Call asc_list_apps and find the app by name/bundle ID.

  2. Check version exists: Call asc_list_versions to find a version in PREPARE_FOR_SUBMISSION state. If none exists, create one with asc_create_version.

  3. Parallel validation — dispatch two agents simultaneously:

Coordinator (you)
├─► Agent A — Signing + Readiness check   [Fast tier: claude-haiku-4-5 / gpt-4.1-mini / gemini-3.0-flash / kimi-for-coding]
└─► Agent B — Local entitlements scan     [Fast tier: claude-haiku-4-5 / gpt-4.1-mini / gemini-3.0-flash / kimi-for-coding]
         │
         ▼ (both complete)
Coordinator — aggregate results, report missing items, offer to fix

Agent A prompt:

Check submission readiness for app ID: <app_id>

1. Call asc_check_signing with bundle IDs: <list>
   and expected capabilities from the entitlements scan (provided by Agent B)
2. Call asc_check_submission with app ID: <app_id>

Report:
- SIGNING: OK / ISSUES (list mismatches)
- METADATA: OK / MISSING (list required fields)
- SCREENSHOTS: OK / MISSING (list devices/locales)
- OVERALL: READY / BLOCKED (list blockers)

Agent B prompt:

Read local entitlements files and report capabilities for each bundle ID.

1. Find all .entitlements files: find <app-dir> -name "*.entitlements"
2. For each file, extract: app group identifiers, capability keys, bundle ID
3. Return a map: { bundleId: [capability1, capability2, ...] }

This output feeds Agent A's signing check.
  1. Report missing items and offer to fix them.

Workflow B: Update Metadata

When the user asks to update metadata, what's new, or description:

  1. Get app and version: asc_list_apps then asc_list_versions (find PREPARE_FOR_SUBMISSION version).

Read the full file on GitHub · 262 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. 5d ago First seen · 262 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 1a711900c715

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asc-submission is a skill published in the GitHub repository markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills (5 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 3,160 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 2026-09-03.

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