ios-testflight-release

ios-testflight-release is a skill for Claude Code from SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,390 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release guide for putting an iOS app build on TestFlight, Apple's service for beta testing apps with invited testers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check an iOS project before uploading, fix blocking settings, and distribute builds to internal or external testers.
Why use it?
It catches configuration problems that can make uploads fail, stall during processing, or require another submission attempt.

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 to check an iOS project before uploading, fix blocking settings, and distribute builds to internal or external testers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stevegjones/ai-first-sdlc-practices/ios-testflight-release
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-testflight-release
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 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,390 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 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 40
    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 48
    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 58
    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 $0.00050 $0.01390
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00695
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00139

Measured 6d ago against content hash be3a512371f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ios-testflight-release 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-testflight-release/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

iOS TestFlight Release

Get an iOS build onto TestFlight without the classic upload/processing/beta-review blockers. This skill encodes real incidents (e.g. a build silently never processed because of a missing NSMotionUsageDescription — ITMS-90683) into a pre-flight → upload → confirm → distribute flow.

Belongs to the ios-release-engineer discipline. Run it before every TestFlight upload; the config checks are cheap and the failures are expensive (a rejected/stalled upload costs a round-trip).

Arguments

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

Steps

1. Run the pre-flight checks (config that blocks uploads)

Run the bundled checker from the plugin's scripts directory:

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

(Set PYTHONPATH to the plugin's scripts/ dir, or run python plugins/sdlc-team-ios/scripts/ -m ios_preflight.cli from a checkout.) It reports, and you must resolve every ERROR before uploading:

  • Missing usage descriptions — every sensitive framework the app links/uses needs its NS…UsageDescription purpose string, or App Store Connect rejects the build in processing (ITMS-90683). The check maps frameworks to keys (CoreMotion→NSMotionUsageDescription, AVFoundation→NSCameraUsageDescription, CoreLocation→NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription, Contacts, Photos, Speech, HealthKit, …). Rule of thumb: if a permission dialog could appear, the string must exist — and be a real human sentence (Apple rejects placeholder text).
  • Export compliance — set ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption = false in Info.plist if the app uses only exempt encryption (standard HTTPS). This skips the export-compliance questionnaire on every upload; without it each build stalls waiting for an answer in ASC.
  • Privacy manifest — add a PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy if you use required-reason APIs (UserDefaults, file/disk timestamps, system boot time, disk space) or bundle third-party SDKs; Apple flags builds without it.
  • Entitlements — no get-task-allow in a release build; aps-environment = production for push.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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 · 102 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A be3a512371f1

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ios-testflight-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices (41 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,390 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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