ios-release-guide

ios-release-guide is a skill for Claude Code from patrickserrano/lacquer. It costs 28 tokens per session (125 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for releasing an iOS app, including uploading it to TestFlight and addressing App Store validation and processing. TestFlight is Apple's service for distributing pre-release app builds to testers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare an iOS release, upload a build to TestFlight, fix App Store validation issues, or handle archives and upload status.
Why use it?
It helps avoid common release problems such as incorrect archive locations, rejected binaries, or confusion about upload processing.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the lacquer-rule-evals plugin — 12 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare an iOS release, upload a build to TestFlight, fix App Store validation issues, or handle archives and upload status.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/patrickserrano/lacquer/ios-release-guide
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 patrickserrano/lacquer --skill ios-release-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/patrickserrano/lacquer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lacquer-rule-evals, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 1 hook.

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 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 125 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 $0.00028 $0.00125
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00050
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00025
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00013

Measured 22d ago against content hash 514abf29e94b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ios-release-guide 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 22d 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.

evals/rules/skills/ios-release-guide/SKILL.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

iOS Release Guide

Project conventions

Read references/project-rules.md for the relevant section when handling this task. Read only what applies; examples do not authorize releases, deployments or changes outside the user's scope. Always-loaded safety rules still apply.

  • App Store Requirements
  • Release archives go to the archive volume, not the repository
  • App Store Connect accepts a binary before it lists it
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 22d ago First seen · 18 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 514abf29e94b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ios-release-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository patrickserrano/lacquer (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 125 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-24.

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