asc-build-lifecycle

asc-build-lifecycle is a skill for Claude Code from rorkai/app-store-connect-cli-skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (442 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for managing Apple App Store Connect build records, including finding builds, checking processing, choosing build numbers, publishing, and expiring old builds.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for inspecting recent or latest iOS builds, finding the next build number, distributing builds through TestFlight or the App Store, and cleaning up expired builds.
Why use it?
It reduces confusion when several builds are uploaded or still processing and helps manage build history and retention.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the asc plugin — 25 skills shipped together

not rated 1.0krepo +15 3d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 31 tokens original MIT

Good fit It is for inspecting recent or latest iOS builds, finding the next build number, distributing builds through TestFlight or the App Store, and cleaning up expired builds.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rorkai/app-store-connect-cli-skills/asc-build-lifecycle
About the project

rorkai/app-store-connect-cli-skills is a community-maintained collection of Agent Skills for using the asc command-line tool with Apple App Store Connect and Apple Ads. It helps coding agents automate builds, TestFlight, metadata, submissions, signing, and advertising workflows.

rorkai/app-store-connect-cli-skills · 1,024 stars · on GitHub · asccli.sh

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 rorkai/app-store-connect-cli-skills --skill asc-build-lifecycle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rorkai/app-store-connect-cli-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install asc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 442 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 17 Apr 2026
  • Snyk pass 17 Apr 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00031 $0.00442
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00221
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00044

Measured 11d ago against content hash 254f4f1c7d51, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

asc-build-lifecycle 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 11d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/asc-build-lifecycle/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

asc build lifecycle

Use this skill to manage build state, processing, and retention.

Find the right build

  • Latest build:
    • asc builds info --app "APP_ID" --latest --version "1.2.3" --platform IOS
  • Next safe build number:
    • asc builds next-build-number --app "APP_ID" --version "1.2.3" --platform IOS
    • The command scans the full processed-build history and in-flight uploads, then returns one greater than the highest positive numeric build number. Blank or non-numeric processed build numbers are skipped with a warning; if no usable number remains, it falls back to --initial-build-number.
  • Recent builds:
    • asc builds list --app "APP_ID" --sort -uploadedDate --limit 10

Inspect processing state

  • asc builds info --build-id "BUILD_ID"

Distribution flows

  • Prefer end-to-end:
    • asc publish testflight --app "APP_ID" --ipa "./app.ipa" --group "GROUP_ID" --wait
    • asc publish appstore --app "APP_ID" --ipa "./app.ipa" --version "1.2.3" --wait --submit --confirm

Cleanup

  • Preview expiration:
    • asc builds expire-all --app "APP_ID" --older-than 90d --dry-run
  • Apply expiration:
    • asc builds expire-all --app "APP_ID" --older-than 90d --confirm
  • Single build:
    • asc builds expire --build-id "BUILD_ID" --confirm

Notes

  • asc builds upload uploads and commits an IPA or PKG. Use asc publish when the workflow must also distribute to TestFlight or stage an App Store release.
  • For long processing times, use --wait, --poll-interval, and --timeout where supported.
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. 11d ago First seen · 39 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 254f4f1c7d51

Subscribe to this mod's changes

asc-build-lifecycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository rorkai/app-store-connect-cli-skills (1,024 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 442 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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