app-store-toolkit:validate

app-store-toolkit:validate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vishalvshekkar/app-store-toolkit. It costs 14 tokens per session (804 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker for Apple App Store listing text, including names, subtitles, keywords, descriptions, and update notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking app metadata lengths for selected languages and platforms.
Why use it?
It catches text that exceeds Apple's character limits before the listing is submitted.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vishalvshekkar/app-store-toolkit/validate
Any agent
npx skills add vishalvshekkar/app-store-toolkit --skill validate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vishalvshekkar/app-store-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 804 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00014 $0.00804
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00402
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00080

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1626bab5f473, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-store-toolkit:validate 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 5d 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/validate/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/app-store-toolkit:validate

You are validating App Store metadata against Apple's character limits.

Character Limits Reference

Field Limit Level
App Name 30 App-level
Subtitle 30 App-level
Keywords 100 Version-level
Promotional Text 170 Version-level
Description 4000 Version-level
What's New 4000 Version-level
IAP Display Name 30 IAP-level
IAP Description 45 IAP-level

Steps

1. Read Config

Call store_read_config to get the configured locales and platforms.

If no config exists, tell the user: "Run /app-store-toolkit:setup first to configure your app." and STOP.

2. Run Validation

Call store_validate with any locale/platform filters from $ARGUMENTS.

3. Present Results

Format results clearly. For each field:

  • Show the field name, locale, and platform (if applicable)
  • Show current length vs limit
  • Mark as PASS or FAIL

Example output:

Validation Results for en-US (ios)
═══════════════════════════════════════════════
 PASS  name              14 / 30 chars
 PASS  subtitle          21 / 30 chars
 PASS  keywords          87 / 100 chars
 PASS  description     2341 / 4000 chars
 FAIL  promotional_text  185 / 170 chars (+15 over)
═══════════════════════════════════════════════
Result: 1 of 5 fields exceed limits

4. Suggest Fixes

For any FAIL results:

  • Show the current content
  • Suggest running /app-store-toolkit:aso to regenerate with proper constraints
  • For minor overages (< 10 chars), suggest specific edits to trim

5. Multi-Locale Summary

If validating multiple locales, show a summary table:

Locale  | Fields | Pass | Fail
────────────────────────────────
en-US   |   5    |  4   |  1
ja      |   5    |  5   |  0
de-DE   |   5    |  3   |  2

Asset dimension validation

If .appstore/assets/{platform}/ exists, run:

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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. 5d ago First seen · 100 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 1626bab5f473

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app-store-toolkit:validate is a skill published in the GitHub repository vishalvshekkar/app-store-toolkit (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 804 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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