asc-release-flow

asc-release-flow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from The-Artificer-of-Ciphers-LLC/skills-from-the-artificer. It costs 46 tokens per session (990 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An end-to-end workflow for uploading an iOS or macOS build to TestFlight or the App Store using App Store Connect.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps publish an IPA file to TestFlight, distribute it to groups, upload an App Store build, and submit a version for review.
Why use it?
It brings build upload, distribution, waiting, and optional submission into a repeatable process instead of requiring several separate manual steps.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps publish an IPA file to TestFlight, distribute it to groups, upload an App Store build, and submit a version for review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/asc-release-flow
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add The-Artificer-of-Ciphers-LLC/skills-from-the-artificer --skill asc-release-flow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/The-Artificer-of-Ciphers-LLC/skills-from-the-artificer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 990 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.
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 $0.00046 $0.00990
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00396
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00099

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6cad07e404c8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

asc-release-flow 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 12d 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.

asc-release-flow/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release flow (TestFlight and App Store)

Use this skill when you need to get a new build into TestFlight or submit to the App Store.

Preconditions

  • Ensure credentials are set (asc auth login or ASC_* env vars).
  • Use a new build number for each upload.
  • Prefer ASC_APP_ID or pass --app explicitly.
  • Build must have encryption compliance resolved (see asc-submission-health skill).

iOS Release

Preferred end-to-end commands

  • TestFlight:
    • asc publish testflight --app <APP_ID> --ipa <PATH> --group <GROUP_ID>[,<GROUP_ID>]
    • Optional: --wait, --notify, --platform, --poll-interval, --timeout
  • App Store:
    • asc publish appstore --app <APP_ID> --ipa <PATH> --version <VERSION>
    • Optional: --wait, --submit --confirm, --platform, --poll-interval, --timeout

Manual sequence (when you need more control)

  1. Upload the build:
    • asc builds upload --app <APP_ID> --ipa <PATH>
  2. Find the build ID if needed:
    • asc builds latest --app <APP_ID> [--version <VERSION>] [--platform <PLATFORM>]
  3. TestFlight distribution:
    • asc builds add-groups --build <BUILD_ID> --group <GROUP_ID>[,<GROUP_ID>]
  4. App Store attach + submit:
    • asc versions attach-build --version-id <VERSION_ID> --build <BUILD_ID>
    • asc submit create --app <APP_ID> --version <VERSION> --build <BUILD_ID> --confirm
  5. Check or cancel submission:
    • asc submit status --id <SUBMISSION_ID> or --version-id <VERSION_ID>
    • asc submit cancel --id <SUBMISSION_ID> --confirm

macOS Release

macOS apps are distributed as .pkg files, not .ipa.

Build and Export

See asc-xcode-build skill for full build/archive/export workflow.

Upload PKG

Upload the exported .pkg using asc:

asc builds upload \
  --app <APP_ID> \
  --pkg <PATH_TO_PKG> \
  --version <VERSION> \
  --build-number <BUILD_NUMBER> \
  --wait

Notes:

  • --pkg automatically sets platform to MAC_OS.
  • asc publish appstore currently supports --ipa workflows; for macOS .pkg, use asc builds upload --pkg + attach/submit steps below.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 12d ago First seen · 113 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 6cad07e404c8

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asc-release-flow is a skill published in the GitHub repository The-Artificer-of-Ciphers-LLC/skills-from-the-artificer (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 990 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-15.

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