app-store-toolkit:ship

app-store-toolkit:ship is a skill for Claude Code from vishalvshekkar/app-store-toolkit. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,121 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for submitting an app to Apple’s App Store. It audits the release, uploads the listing materials and assets, attaches a build, and submits it for review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for end-to-end App Store submissions, including metadata, privacy information, review details, screenshots, and the app build.
Why use it?
It organizes the release steps and can resume from a saved checkpoint if a phase fails.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the app-store-toolkit plugin — 19 skills, 2 agents, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it for end-to-end App Store submissions, including metadata, privacy information, review details, screenshots, and the app build.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vishalvshekkar/app-store-toolkit/ship
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 vishalvshekkar/app-store-toolkit --skill ship
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vishalvshekkar/app-store-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install app-store-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 2 agents, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,121 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 $0.00060 $0.01121
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00561
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00112

Measured 8d ago against content hash c37a586308bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-store-toolkit:ship 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 8d 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/ship/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/app-store-toolkit:ship

You are running a full App Store submission end-to-end. Eight phases; checkpoint after each in .appstore/ship-state.json.

1. Load or initialize ship-state

  • Call store_read_ship_state.
    • If state exists, this is a resume: skip every phase in completed_phases and re-enter current_phase.
    • If no state exists, this is a fresh run: build a fresh ShipState (schema_version 1, version from config, started_at = now ISO, current_phase = "audit", completed_phases = [], audit_findings_ref = null, waivers = []) and call store_write_ship_state { state }.

Parse $ARGUMENTS for --waive check:target (may appear multiple times) and --reason "...". These become the run's waivers.

2. Phases (in order)

Phase 1: audit

  • Call /app-store-toolkit:audit as a sub-skill (or run the audit checks inline).
  • Read the latest entry from .appstore/history/audits.jsonl.
  • For each blocker, check whether it's been waived (the user's --waive list matches check:target).
  • If unwaived blockers remain, abort with the punch list and instruction: "Re-run with --waive to override, or resolve the blockers."
  • Update ship-state: append "audit" to completed_phases, set current_phase: "push-metadata", set audit_findings_ref to the latest audits.jsonl line index. Persist via store_write_ship_state.

Phase 2: push-metadata

  • Call /app-store-toolkit:push with no asset flag (skip assets; that's phase 6).
  • On success, update state: completed_phases += "push-metadata", current_phase = "push-listing".

Phase 3: push-listing

  • Push categories, age rating, pricing, availability, encryption (from listing.json). Use the existing M1 tools (asc_set_categories, asc_set_age_rating, asc_set_pricing, asc_set_availability).
  • On success, advance state.

Phase 4: push-privacy

  • asc_set_privacy_responses from privacy.json.
  • On success, advance state.

Phase 5: push-review

  • asc_set_review_info from review.json.
  • On success, advance state.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 8d ago First seen · 90 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A c37a586308bc

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app-store-toolkit:ship is a skill published in the GitHub repository vishalvshekkar/app-store-toolkit (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,121 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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