asc-launch-workflow

A coordinator for preparing a complete localized App Store launch or update in App Store Connect, Apple's app-publishing service. It brings together metadata, keyword fields, screenshots, and API task data into one reviewable package.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to organize translated store copy, search keywords, screenshot assets, and App Store Connect API instructions for a launch or update.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manage several app-store preparation tasks separately and adds a review step before any changes are sent to Apple.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the asc-release-kit plugin — 6 skills shipped together

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/raydeveloperf/app-store-connect-release-kit/asc-launch-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add raydeveloperF/App-Store-Connect-release-kit --skill asc-launch-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raydeveloperF/App-Store-Connect-release-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install asc-release-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,913 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 $0.00107 $0.02913
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01456
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00583
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00291

Measured 2d ago against content hash e08419bf037e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

asc-launch-workflow 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.

skills/asc-launch-workflow/SKILL.md · 325 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 325 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ASC Launch Workflow

Use this skill as the coordinator for a full ASC launch/update pass:

  1. localized metadata copy;
  2. localized keyword fields;
  3. localized ASC screenshot assets;
  4. ASC API task JSON and, after explicit confirmation, optional ASC execution.

Each phase runs in a dedicated subagent to keep the coordinator's context lean. The coordinator builds the shared product brief, dispatches subagents with precise inputs, collects their file outputs and summaries, assembles the review bundle, and handles the ASC mutation confirmation directly with the user. The coordinator never performs the work of a child skill inline.

If any child skill is missing or cannot be loaded, stop before the affected phase and report the missing dependency.

Security And Live-Update Rules

Never ask the user to paste App Store Connect secrets, .p8 contents, JWTs, Authorization headers, or ~/.asc_secrets.

Never read or print ~/.asc_secrets, .p8 private keys, tokens, Authorization headers, or full request headers.

Treat App Store Connect writes as a two-step process:

  1. Generate final ASC task JSON from reviewed artifacts.
  2. Stop and ask the user to confirm the exact JSON before any POST, PATCH, DELETE, upload, submit, or state change.

Read-only ASC discovery may run when the task is clear and local access is available. Mutating ASC operations must never run in the same step that first creates the final JSON unless the user already explicitly approved that exact JSON.

Start Gate

Before starting any project inspection, subagent dispatch, hard dependency check, file generation, screenshot capture, App Store Connect discovery, or API task drafting, verify that the required inputs below are present.

Everything not listed here is either inferred from the project, defaulted automatically, or discovered at runtime. Do not ask the user for anything beyond this list.

Required inputs — the only things to block on:

Input Required when Why it cannot be inferred
Phases to run Always User decision; cannot be guessed
Target locales Always User decision; cannot be guessed
Pixelmator Pro PXD template path screenshots phase Stored in user's personal directory; not discoverable
Intended ASC operation (draft-only / generate-task-json / execute-after-confirmation) asc-json or asc-execute phase Determines whether live App Store mutations happen; must be explicit

Read the full file on GitHub · 325 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 325 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A e08419bf037e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

asc-launch-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository raydeveloperF/App-Store-Connect-release-kit (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 2,913 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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