asc-release-flow

asc-release-flow is a skill for Claude Code from rorkai/app-store-connect-cli-skills. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,685 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for releasing an app through App Store Connect, Apple's service for managing App Store listings, builds, and review submissions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stage a version, upload or build an app package, prepare Game Center items, publish the release, and submit it for review.
Why use it?
It organizes the steps needed to attach a build, publish a version, and send it to Apple for review.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the asc plugin — 25 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to stage a version, upload or build an app package, prepare Game Center items, publish the release, and submit it for review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rorkai/app-store-connect-cli-skills/asc-release-flow
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 · 1,020 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-release-flow
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 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,685 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 warn 5 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 5 May 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 $0.00071 $0.01685
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00843
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00337
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00169

Measured 4d ago against content hash 052e199f0677, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

asc-release-flow 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 4d 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-release-flow/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

App Store release orchestration

Use this skill to carry a release from an approved plan to App Store review. Keep Game Center item preparation here; keep other blocker diagnosis and review recovery in asc-submission-health.

Ownership boundary

This skill owns:

  • staging metadata and attaching a build;
  • publishing an IPA or building locally;
  • submitting a prepared version;
  • assembling a multi-item review submission.

Use the preparation section for Game Center item preparation or attachment blockers. Use that reference's assembly and submission sections only after the app version is staged and the multi-item lane is selected. Switch to asc-submission-health for other validation blockers, a stuck submission, cancellation, or retry decisions.

Switch skills within the current task, preserving resolved targets, authorization, and verified progress. A failing gate blocks dependent mutations, not diagnosis or independent authorized work. Continue authorized repairs and resume this flow; request new authority only when repairs exceed the agreed scope.

Preconditions

  • Resolve APP_ID, the version string, VERSION_ID when needed, and BUILD_ID when a build already exists.
  • Configure auth with asc auth login or ASC_* environment variables.
  • Confirm the intended platform. Use IOS unless the app targets another platform.
  • Keep canonical metadata in ./metadata when the workflow applies metadata.
  • Require a dry run before a mutating high-level command, then require --confirm for submission.

Choose the release lane

Intent Command
Prepare metadata and attach an existing build without submitting asc release stage
Submit an already prepared version asc review submit
Upload an IPA or build locally, then optionally submit asc publish appstore
Submit the app version with IAP, subscription, or Game Center version items lower-level asc review submission commands

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 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. 4d ago Changed · +2 lines 052e199f0677
  2. 11d ago First seen · 162 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 744944011b75

Subscribe to this mod's changes

asc-release-flow is a skill published in the GitHub repository rorkai/app-store-connect-cli-skills (1,020 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,685 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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