asc-metadata-sync

asc-metadata-sync is a skill for Claude Code from rorkai/app-store-connect-cli-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (2,348 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for pulling, editing, checking, and applying App Store metadata through the asc command-line tool. App Store metadata is the text and links shown on an app's store listing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to sync names, subtitles, descriptions, keywords, promotional text, support links, and release notes, including localized versions.
Why use it?
It keeps local listing files aligned with App Store Connect and provides a repeatable way to validate and update them.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the asc plugin — 26 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to sync names, subtitles, descriptions, keywords, promotional text, support links, and release notes, including localized versions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rorkai/app-store-connect-cli-skills/asc-metadata-sync
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 · 1,100 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-metadata-sync
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 26 skills.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,348 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 14 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 14 Sept 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 $0.00047 $0.02348
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00939
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00470
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00235

Measured 12d ago against content hash 95a53c4d0869, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

asc-metadata-sync 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 12d 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

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/asc-metadata-sync/SKILL.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

asc metadata sync

Use this skill to keep App Store metadata in sync with App Store Connect. Prefer the canonical asc metadata workflow for app-info and version localization fields. Use the lower-level asc localizations and asc migrate commands only when the user specifically needs .strings files or legacy fastlane-format metadata.

Current canonical workflow

1. Pull canonical metadata

asc metadata pull --app "APP_ID" --version "1.2.3" --platform IOS --dir "./metadata"

If the app has multiple app-info records, resolve the app-info ID first and pass it explicitly:

asc apps info list --app "APP_ID" --output table
asc metadata pull --app "APP_ID" --app-info "APP_INFO_ID" --version "1.2.3" --platform IOS --dir "./metadata"

2. Edit local files

Canonical files are written under:

  • metadata/app-info/<locale>.json for app-level fields: name, subtitle, privacyPolicyUrl, privacyChoicesUrl, privacyPolicyText
  • metadata/version/<version>/<locale>.json for version fields: description, keywords, marketingUrl, promotionalText, supportUrl, whatsNew

Copyright is not a localization field. Manage it with:

asc versions update --version-id "VERSION_ID" --copyright "2026 Your Company"

3. Validate before upload

asc metadata validate --dir "./metadata" --output table

For subscription apps, include the extra Terms of Use / EULA heuristic:

asc metadata validate --dir "./metadata" --subscription-app --output table

4. Preview and apply

Run a dry run first:

asc metadata push --app "APP_ID" --version "1.2.3" --platform IOS --dir "./metadata" --dry-run --output table

Apply after the plan looks correct:

asc metadata push --app "APP_ID" --version "1.2.3" --platform IOS --dir "./metadata"

Use asc metadata apply when the user wants the apply-named command shape for the same canonical files:

asc metadata apply --app "APP_ID" --version "1.2.3" --platform IOS --dir "./metadata" --dry-run
asc metadata apply --app "APP_ID" --version "1.2.3" --platform IOS --dir "./metadata"

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 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. 12d ago Changed · +27 lines · +8 tokens per session 95a53c4d0869
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 174 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 1a4b5b2dfc42

Subscribe to this mod's changes

asc-metadata-sync is a skill published in the GitHub repository rorkai/app-store-connect-cli-skills (1,100 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 2,348 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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