appstore-release-director

appstore-release-director is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Xopoko/build-swift-apps. It costs 45 tokens per session (776 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordinator for preparing and managing an Apple App Store release. It brings together checks for builds, signing, metadata, screenshots, pricing, privacy details, subscriptions, and review information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a project and Apple account setup, prepare App Store Connect, check signing and release materials, and coordinate submission work.
Why use it?
It gives a release process a single place to discover what is configured, verify missing pieces, and hand focused tasks to specialist tools.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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

Good fit Use it to inspect a project and Apple account setup, prepare App Store Connect, check signing and release materials, and coordinate submission work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xopoko/build-swift-apps/appstore-release-director
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-release-director
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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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 776 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: 2 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 14
    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 17
    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 $0.00045 $0.00776
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00388
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00155
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00078

Measured 11d ago against content hash 15e1e89b8927, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

appstore-release-director 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/appstore_preflight.py, scripts/make_export_options.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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-release-director/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

App Store Release Director

Broad release orchestration. For focused asc work, delegate to appstore-connect-cli, appstore-id-resolver, appstore-archive-uploader, appstore-release-planner, appstore-review-readiness, appstore-metadata-sync, appstore-metadata-localizer, appstore-screenshot-pipeline, and appstore-signing-setup.

Workflow

  1. Discover release truth:
    • git root, workspace/project, scheme, bundle ID, version/build, deployment target, entitlements, generator ownership;
    • existing handoff/docs: apple-publishing-handoff.md, manifest JSON, release, appstore, testflight, fastlane, ExportOptions.plist.
  2. Verify Apple account/signing:
    • team, Team ID, API key, identities, Bundle ID resource/capabilities, distribution cert, provisioning profile;
    • keep .p8, .p12, profiles, passwords, and decoded plists out of git; prefer .codex-private/apple/ or a secret store.
  3. Prepare App Store Connect:
    • app record, platform, bundle, app info, categories, pricing/availability, age rating, privacy/support URLs, screenshots, App Privacy, review details, release option;
    • for subscriptions, verify products and Terms/EULA link. Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/.
  4. Compliance preflight:
    • production runtime config, legal URLs return 2xx/3xx, encryption/export compliance, privacy/tracking claims match code/SDKs.
  5. Build/test/archive/export/upload:
    • choose unique build number from live ASC state;
    • run required tests/smoke checks;
    • archive for generic/platform=iOS, export App Store IPA, validate, upload, wait for processing.
  6. Link build and submit/readiness:
    • attach processed build, resolve metadata-only issues before new binaries, cancel/complete old submissions if blocking.
  7. Finish evidence:
    • handoff/manifest: version/build, archive/IPA paths, SHA-256, delivery UUID, ASC build state, review submission ID, legal URLs, screenshots, remaining risks.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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. 11d ago First seen · 62 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 15e1e89b8927

Subscribe to this mod's changes

appstore-release-director is a skill published in the GitHub repository Xopoko/build-swift-apps (45 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 776 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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