ios-appstore-submit

ios-appstore-submit is a skill for Claude Code from SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,008 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-submission checklist and audit for iOS apps before sending them to App Review, Apple's process for approving apps in its store.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a build reaches TestFlight to check the project, privacy declarations, privacy manifests, required usage descriptions, release configuration, and review-related choices.
Why use it?
It helps find missing privacy details, release settings, metadata, and other common causes of submission delays or rejection.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the sdlc-team-ios plugin — 5 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it after a build reaches TestFlight to check the project, privacy declarations, privacy manifests, required usage descriptions, release configuration, and review-related choices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stevegjones/ai-first-sdlc-practices/ios-appstore-submit
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 SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices --skill ios-appstore-submit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdlc-team-ios, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 4 agents.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,008 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 $0.00053 $0.01008
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00504
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00202
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00101

Measured 6d ago against content hash bfb5890b45cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ios-appstore-submit 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 6d 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.

plugins/sdlc-team-ios/skills/ios-appstore-submit/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

iOS App Store Submit

A pre-submission audit that catches the issues most likely to get an App Store submission rejected, before you hit "Submit for Review". Belongs to the ios-release-engineer discipline. Run it once the build is on TestFlight and you're preparing the public release.

Arguments

  • path-to-ios-project — the project directory to check (defaults to the current directory).

Steps

1. Run the pre-flight checks

python -m ios_preflight.cli <project-dir> [--uses-push]

Resolve every ERROR (missing usage descriptions, missing privacy manifest when required, get-task-allow in release). Address WARNINGs (export compliance, placeholder purpose strings) too — they cause stalled uploads and review friction.

2. Clear the three privacy surfaces (all can block the submission)

  • App Privacy nutrition labels (declared in App Store Connect) — data types collected, whether linked to identity, used for tracking, and purpose. Must include data collected by third-party SDKs. A new version can't ship with this incomplete.
  • Privacy manifest (PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy in the bundle) — tracking flag, tracking domains, collected data types, and required-reason API declarations with approved reason codes. Enforced at upload.
  • Purpose strings + ATT — every NS…UsageDescription present and human-readable; call ATT before touching the IDFA, and keep it consistent with the nutrition label / manifest tracking declaration.
  • A privacy policy URL must be live and reachable.

3. Check the high-frequency rejection guidelines

(Guideline numbers change — re-verify against the live App Review Guidelines.)

  • 2.1 Completeness — no crashes on review, no placeholder content, no broken links; provide a demo account if there's a login.
  • 2.3 Accurate metadata — screenshots/description match the app; no misleading keywords.
  • 3.1.1 In-App Purchase — digital goods/content sold through IAP, not external payment.
  • 4.2 Minimum functionality — not a thin web-wrapper with no native value.
  • 4.8 Login services — if you offer social/third-party login, offer a privacy-preserving option (e.g. Sign in with Apple) where required; on account deletion, revoke SiwA tokens via the REST API.
  • 5.1.1(v) Account deletion — if the app supports account creation, it must offer in-app account deletion (delete, not just deactivate), easy to find.
  • 5.1.1 / 5.1.2 Data — request only data you need, with justification.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 6d ago First seen · 83 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A bfb5890b45cc

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ios-appstore-submit is a skill published in the GitHub repository SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices (41 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,008 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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