apple-developer-auth

A guide and command-line menu for signing in to Apple's developer services and setting up App Store Connect access.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check authentication, sign in or revoke access, list apps and certificates, register bundle IDs, and configure the App Store Connect command-line tool.
Why use it?
It gathers Apple ID, two-factor authentication, certificates, profiles, bundle IDs, and API-key setup in one workflow.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/moasq/ios-dev-agent/apple-developer-auth
Any agent
npx skills add moasq/ios-dev-agent --skill apple-developer-auth
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/moasq/ios-dev-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 761 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00050 $0.00761
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00380
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00152
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00076

Measured 2d ago against content hash 89e9f546b014, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apple-developer-auth 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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/apple-developer-auth/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple Developer Authentication

Tell the user to run the interactive menu:

! python3 .agents/scripts/apple-developer-auth.py

What the menu shows

If not connected (red):

  ● Not connected

  [1] Sign in  (Apple ID + password + 2FA)
  [2] Manual   (provide .p8 API key for asc CLI)

If connected (green):

  ● Connected  as [email protected]
    Session age: 3d — valid for ~27d more

  [1] Revoke session (sign out)
  [2] List apps
  [3] List certificates
  [4] List profiles
  [5] Register bundle ID
  [6] Setup asc CLI (.p8 key)

If expired (yellow):

  ● Expired  session for [email protected]

  [1] Sign in
  [2] Manual
  [3] Revoke (clear expired session)

Direct commands

For non-interactive use (e.g. from Claude):

# Sign in
! python3 .agents/scripts/apple-developer-auth.py login --user [email protected]

# Check status (validates live against Apple)
! python3 .agents/scripts/apple-developer-auth.py status

# Revoke / sign out
! python3 .agents/scripts/apple-developer-auth.py revoke

# Portal operations
! python3 .agents/scripts/apple-developer-auth.py list-apps
! python3 .agents/scripts/apple-developer-auth.py list-certs
! python3 .agents/scripts/apple-developer-auth.py list-profiles
! python3 .agents/scripts/apple-developer-auth.py register-bundle com.example.app "My App"

# Manual .p8 key setup
! python3 .agents/scripts/apple-developer-auth.py setup-asc

Auth flow internals (mirrors Fastlane Spaceship)

  1. Widget key from appstoreconnect.apple.com/olympus/v1/app/config
  2. Hashcash proof-of-work (SHA-1, X-Apple-HC-Bits/X-Apple-HC-Challenge)
  3. SRP-6a: signin/init (sends A, receives B+salt+iterations) → PBKDF2 → signin/complete (sends M1+M2)
  4. 2FA: device push or SMS (user types code, or sms to switch)
  5. Trust: GET /appleauth/auth/2sv/trust
  6. Cookies persisted at ~/.apple-developer-auth/cookies.txt (~30 days)

Status validation

status and menu validate live — not just checking if a cookie file exists. They call Apple's Olympus session endpoint and report:

  • Green (valid): Cookie exists AND Apple accepted it
  • Yellow (expired): Cookie exists but Apple rejected it
  • Red (not connected): No session at all

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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. 2d ago First seen · 91 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 89e9f546b014

Subscribe to this mod's changes

apple-developer-auth is a skill published in the GitHub repository moasq/ios-dev-agent (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 761 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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