release-review

release-review is a skill for Claude Code from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,226 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-release review for macOS and iOS apps that checks security, privacy, user experience, and distribution problems before shipping.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review an app before App Store submission, TestFlight distribution, notarization, or a public launch.
Why use it?
It helps find issues that could cause App Store rejection, expose user data, or frustrate users before release.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

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

not rated 713repo +13 1mo ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: failSkillSpector: warn 49 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to review an app before App Store submission, TestFlight distribution, notarization, or a public launch.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/release-review
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 release-review
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.

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 release-review

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/release-review/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/release-review)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/release-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/release-review/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for release-review

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/release-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/release-review.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,226 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 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk fail 15 Feb 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 32
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 81
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 193
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00049 $0.01226
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00613
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00245
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00123

Measured 7d ago against content hash c7d205e5d93b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-review 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 7d 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/release-review/SKILL.md · 234 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Review for Apple Platforms

Performs a comprehensive pre-release audit of macOS and iOS applications from a senior developer's perspective. Identifies critical issues that could cause rejection, security vulnerabilities, privacy concerns, and UX problems—with actionable fixes.

When This Skill Activates

Use this skill when the user:

  • Says "review for release", "release review", or "pre-release audit"
  • Asks for "senior developer review" or "critical review"
  • Mentions preparing for "App Store", "TestFlight", or "notarization"
  • Wants to know what "power users might complain about"
  • Asks to "review before shipping" or "check before release"

Review Process

Phase 1: Project Discovery

First, understand the project:

# Find project type
Glob: **/*.xcodeproj or **/*.xcworkspace
Glob: **/Info.plist
Glob: **/project.pbxproj

Identify:

  • Platform (macOS, iOS, or both)
  • App type (standard app, menu bar app, widget, extension)
  • Distribution method (App Store, direct download, TestFlight)

Phase 2: Security Review

Load and apply: security-checklist.md

Key areas:

  • Credential storage (Keychain patterns, no hardcoded secrets)
  • Data transmission (HTTPS, certificate validation)
  • Input validation (injection prevention)
  • Entitlements audit
  • Hardened runtime (macOS)

Phase 3: Privacy Review

Load and apply: privacy-checklist.md

Key areas:

  • Data collection transparency
  • Privacy manifest (iOS 17+)
  • User consent flows
  • Third-party SDK disclosure
  • GDPR compliance basics

Phase 4: UX Polish Review

Load and apply: ux-polish-checklist.md

Key areas:

  • First launch / onboarding
  • Empty states and error handling
  • Loading states
  • Text truncation and accessibility
  • Platform-specific UX patterns

Phase 5: Distribution Review

Load and apply: distribution-checklist.md

Key areas:

  • Bundle identifier format
  • Code signing configuration
  • Info.plist completeness
  • App icons
  • Platform-specific requirements (notarization, App Store)

Read the full file on GitHub · 234 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 7d ago First seen · 234 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A c7d205e5d93b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (713 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,226 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.

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