beta-testing

beta-testing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills. It costs 67 tokens per session (4,733 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A testing guide for running an iOS or macOS beta, where selected users try an unfinished app before public release.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps set up TestFlight, recruit testers, gather feedback, run user interviews, interpret results, and make a launch decision.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to collect useful feedback and decide whether the app is ready to launch.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the apple-skills plugin — 147 skills shipped together , and of apple-skills

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/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/beta-testing
Any agent
npx skills add rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills --skill beta-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install apple-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 147 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for beta-testing

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/beta-testing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/beta-testing.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,733 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 $0.00067 $0.04733
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.02367
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00947
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00473

Measured 2d ago against content hash 329e53f510f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

beta-testing 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/product/beta-testing/SKILL.md · 502 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 502 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Beta Testing Strategy

End-to-end beta testing workflow for Apple platform apps — from TestFlight setup through feedback collection to launch readiness decision.

When This Skill Activates

Use this skill when the user:

  • Wants to run a beta test or plan a beta program
  • Needs to set up TestFlight for internal or external testing
  • Asks how to collect user feedback during beta
  • Wants to know if their app is ready to launch
  • Needs help designing a beta feedback survey
  • Asks "how many beta testers do I need?"
  • Mentions "TestFlight", "beta testers", "soft launch", or "launch readiness"
  • Wants to plan a structured beta rollout
  • Needs a go/no-go framework for shipping

Process

Phase 1: TestFlight Program Strategy

Before recruiting testers, understand Apple's two-tier beta system.

Internal Testing
Attribute Details
Max testers 100 team members, each on up to 30 devices
App Review required No
Build availability Immediate after upload — enable Automatic Distribution so every new build reaches the group without manual selection
Tester requirement Must be App Store Connect users
Best for Team, close collaborators, developer friends
Expiration 90 days from build upload

Use internal testing for:

  • Catching crashes and obvious bugs before anyone else sees the app
  • Validating core flows work end-to-end
  • Getting feedback from people who will be honest (friends, fellow devs)
External Testing
Attribute Details
Max testers 10,000
App Review required Yes — the first build (and builds with significant changes) pass Beta App Review, usually 24-48 hours
Build availability After Beta App Review approval
Tester requirement Anyone with an email address and iOS/macOS device
Best for Real users, broader audience, validating product-market fit
Expiration 90 days from build upload — plan your build cadence around it

Use external testing for:

  • Validating with real users who have no context about your app
  • Stress-testing with diverse devices, OS versions, and usage patterns
  • Gathering signal on whether the value proposition resonates

Read the full file on GitHub · 502 lines

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 · 502 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 329e53f510f1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

beta-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (700 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 4,733 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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