pre-orders

pre-orders is a skill for Claude Code from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,725 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide and timeline template for putting an unreleased app up for pre-order on Apple’s App Store. A pre-order lets people request an app before its release date.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan the pre-order period, set a release timeline, coordinate marketing, and prepare launch activities.
Why use it?
It organizes the launch work and helps coordinate the App Store setup and promotion before the app is available.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; positional $N argument.

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

Good fit Use it to plan the pre-order period, set a release timeline, coordinate marketing, and prepare launch activities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/pre-orders
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 rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills --skill pre-orders
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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README.md
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,725 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
  • 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 $0.00035 $0.01725
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00863
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00345
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00172

Measured 5d ago against content hash f4093d28e476, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pre-orders 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 5d 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/generators/pre-orders/SKILL.md · 188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pre-Orders Generator

Generate pre-order configuration guides, launch timeline templates, and marketing coordination plans for App Store pre-orders.

When This Skill Activates

Use this skill when the user:

  • Asks about "pre-orders" or "App Store pre-order"
  • Wants to "build anticipation" before a launch
  • Mentions "pre-launch strategy" or "launch countdown"
  • Asks about making their app available before release date
  • Wants to collect day-one downloads

How Pre-Orders Work

  • Unreleased app: release date can be set up to 180 days out
  • Users can order your app before it's available
  • On release day customers are notified and the app auto-downloads within ~24 hours — the queue converts itself
  • Pre-orders count toward your launch day download numbers
  • Your app appears in search and browse during pre-order period
  • Price can be set to "Free" or any paid tier during pre-order
  • Three edit options stay open anytime: change the date, release immediately, or pull a region; changes propagate within 24 hours

Key Benefits

  1. Accumulate downloads: Pre-orders count toward day-one velocity
  2. Search visibility: App is searchable before release
  3. Featuring eligibility: Apple can feature pre-order apps
  4. Marketing anchor: Give audiences a concrete action ("Pre-order now")
  5. A working ASO period: Custom Product Pages and PPO tests both run during pre-order — launch day should land on an already-tested page

Not Just for Launches: Regional Pre-Orders

An existing app entering new storefronts can run a pre-order in just those territories — with a longer runway: the release date can be up to 365 days out (vs. 180 for an unreleased app), and any date change is capped at 365 days from when the pre-order first published. Accumulated pre-orders convert on day one in the new market — the same velocity spike a launch gets, aimed at the new market's chart entry.

⚠️ One-shot per territory: once released in a region, you can never run a pre-order there again.

Read the full file on GitHub · 188 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. 5d ago First seen · 188 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A f4093d28e476

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pre-orders is a skill published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (710 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,725 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 2026-09-03.