appstore-archive-uploader

appstore-archive-uploader is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Xopoko/build-swift-apps. It costs 41 tokens per session (890 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for preparing Apple app archives, which are packaged builds submitted to TestFlight or the App Store. It covers version and build numbers, archiving, exporting, uploading, and publishing with Apple’s tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Updating release numbers, creating iOS, tvOS, or visionOS archives, exporting packages, and uploading builds for testing or store submission.
Why use it?
It gives agents a defined release process and checks important requirements such as macOS, Xcode, signing, and App Store Connect authentication.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the build-swift-apps plugin — 61 skills, 3 commands, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Updating release numbers, creating iOS, tvOS, or visionOS archives, exporting packages, and uploading builds for testing or store submission.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xopoko/build-swift-apps/appstore-archive-uploader
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 Xopoko/build-swift-apps --skill appstore-archive-uploader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Xopoko/build-swift-apps

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install build-swift-apps, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 61 skills, 3 commands, 3 MCP servers.

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README.md
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 890 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 37
    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 60
    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 60
    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 $0.00041 $0.00890
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00445
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00089

Measured 11d ago against content hash 7fb51cd24fd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

appstore-archive-uploader 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 11d 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/appstore-archive-uploader/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

App Store Archive Uploader

Before invoking Apple-only binaries, confirm the execution context is macOS. From Windows or Linux, run those steps in a Mac SSH project or through an already configured remote transport; do not retry missing Apple binaries locally.

Prefer asc xcode archive and asc xcode export over raw xcodebuild when they fit.

Preconditions

Xcode/CLT installed; signing identity/profiles or automatic signing available; ASC auth configured for upload/build lookup.

Version And Build

asc xcode version view
asc xcode version edit --version "1.3.0" --build-number "42"
asc xcode version bump --type build
asc xcode version bump --type patch
asc builds next-build-number --app "APP_ID" --version "1.2.3" --platform IOS --output json
asc xcode version edit --build-number "NEXT_BUILD"

Use --project-dir, --project, and --target for multi-project/target determinism.

iOS/tvOS/visionOS

asc xcode archive --workspace "App.xcworkspace" --scheme "App" --configuration Release \
  --clean --archive-path ".asc/artifacts/App.xcarchive" \
  --xcodebuild-flag=-destination --xcodebuild-flag=generic/platform=iOS --output json

asc xcode export --archive-path ".asc/artifacts/App.xcarchive" \
  --export-options "ExportOptions.plist" --ipa-path ".asc/artifacts/App.ipa" \
  --xcodebuild-flag=-allowProvisioningUpdates --output json

Use --project "App.xcodeproj" for project-only apps. Add --wait to export/upload/publish when the next step depends on processed builds.

Upload/distribute:

asc builds upload --app "APP_ID" --ipa ".asc/artifacts/App.ipa" --wait
asc publish testflight --app "APP_ID" --ipa ".asc/artifacts/App.ipa" --group "GROUP_ID" --wait
asc publish appstore --app "APP_ID" --ipa ".asc/artifacts/App.ipa" --version "1.2.3" --wait
asc publish appstore --app "APP_ID" --ipa ".asc/artifacts/App.ipa" --version "1.2.3" --wait --submit --confirm

macOS App Store

asc xcode archive --project "MacApp.xcodeproj" --scheme "MacApp" --configuration Release \
  --clean --archive-path ".asc/artifacts/MacApp.xcarchive" \
  --xcodebuild-flag=-destination --xcodebuild-flag=generic/platform=macOS --output json

xcodebuild -exportArchive -archivePath ".asc/artifacts/MacApp.xcarchive" \
  -exportPath ".asc/artifacts/MacAppExport" -exportOptionsPlist "ExportOptions.plist" \
  -allowProvisioningUpdates

asc builds upload --app "APP_ID" --pkg ".asc/artifacts/MacAppExport/MacApp.pkg" \
  --version "1.0.0" --build-number "123" --wait

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 77 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 7fb51cd24fd5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

appstore-archive-uploader is a skill published in the GitHub repository Xopoko/build-swift-apps (45 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 890 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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