app-store-prep

app-store-prep is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from troyjthomas/ios-agent-skills. It costs 59 tokens per session (1,516 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A final preparation guide for submitting an iPhone or iPad app through TestFlight, Apple's beta-testing service, and the App Store. It covers release settings, identifiers, icons, screenshots, metadata, signing, and submission.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure an Xcode project for release, add the app icon, check required privacy and configuration entries, prepare TestFlight distribution, and submit the app.
Why use it?
It gathers the many Apple-specific release requirements in one place after device testing is complete. This reduces the chance of missing a setting or required store asset.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to configure an Xcode project for release, add the app icon, check required privacy and configuration entries, prepare TestFlight distribution, and submit the app.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/troyjthomas/ios-agent-skills/app-store-prep
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 troyjthomas/ios-agent-skills --skill app-store-prep
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/troyjthomas/ios-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,516 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 $0.00059 $0.01516
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00758
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00303
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00152

Measured 9d ago against content hash 21c081e890b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-store-prep 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 9d 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/app-store-prep/SKILL.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

App Store Prep

Your app works. It's tested. Now ship it.

When to Use

  • Device testing is complete
  • All critical bugs are fixed
  • You're ready for TestFlight or App Store submission

Prerequisites

  • Apple Developer Program membership ($99/year)
  • Xcode with a valid signing certificate
  • App icon designed and exported at required sizes
  • Screenshots from iPhone (and iPad if you support it)

Phase 1: Xcode Configuration

Tell Claude Code:

Configure the Xcode project for release:
- Bundle identifier: com.[yourname].[appname]
- Display name: [App Name]
- Version: 1.0.0
- Build: 1
- Deployment target: iOS [version]
- Supported orientations: Portrait (or specify)
- Supported devices: iPhone (or iPhone + iPad)
- Add the app icon to Assets.xcassets/AppIcon
- Ensure all required Info.plist entries are present

App Icon Requirements

You need a single 1024x1024px PNG (no transparency, no rounded corners, the system adds those). Design this in Figma or your preferred tool.

Tell Claude Code:

Add the app icon from [path or describe where it is].
Verify it's configured correctly in the asset catalog.

Required Info.plist Entries

If your app uses any of these, you need usage description strings:

  • Camera: NSCameraUsageDescription
  • Photo Library: NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription
  • Location: NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription
  • Notifications: no plist entry needed, but permission request in code
  • Health: NSHealthShareUsageDescription

Tell Claude Code:

Add the following privacy usage descriptions to Info.plist:
- [List only the ones your app actually uses]
Use clear, user-friendly language that explains why the app needs access.

Phase 2: TestFlight

Create the App in App Store Connect

  1. Go to appstoreconnect.apple.com
  2. My Apps > + (New App)
  3. Fill in: name, primary language, bundle ID, SKU
  4. Save

Archive and Upload

In Xcode:

  1. Select "Any iOS Device" as build destination (not a specific simulator or device)
  2. Product > Archive
  3. When archive completes, click "Distribute App"
  4. Select "App Store Connect"
  5. Follow the prompts to upload

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 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. 9d ago First seen · 193 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 21c081e890b7

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app-store-prep is a skill published in the GitHub repository troyjthomas/ios-agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,516 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 2026-08-31.

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