appstore-release-notes-writer

appstore-release-notes-writer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Xopoko/build-swift-apps. It costs 45 tokens per session (738 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for writing the “What’s New” notes and promotional text shown with an App Store update, optionally in multiple languages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft localized release notes grouped as new, improved, and fixed changes, based on recent product work.
Why use it?
It turns user-facing changes from git history, bullet points, or prose into release notes while excluding unrelated listing and subscription text.

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 Use it to draft localized release notes grouped as new, improved, and fixed changes, based on recent product work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xopoko/build-swift-apps/appstore-release-notes-writer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Xopoko/build-swift-apps --skill appstore-release-notes-writer
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 738 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00738
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00369
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00074

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6ed0fd947105, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

appstore-release-notes-writer 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 10d 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-release-notes-writer/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 Notes Writer

Write human-focused release notes, optionally localized to every existing metadata locale.

Use appstore-metadata-sync for general listing metadata edits, appstore-metadata-localizer for full listing translation, and appstore-subscription-localizer for subscription/IAP display-name localization.

Preconditions

  • Canonical metadata from asc metadata pull --app "APP_ID" --version "1.2.3" --dir "./metadata" or user-provided keywords.
  • Auth configured for upload.
  • Primary locale is en-US unless specified.
  • Read references/release_notes_guidelines.md.
  • Use highest semver under metadata/version/; locales are the JSON files there.

Workflow

  1. Gather input:
    • Git log: git describe --tags --abbrev=0 then git log <tag>..HEAD --oneline --no-merges; remove merges/deps/CI/format noise.
    • User bullets or free text.
    • If absent, ask what changed.
  2. Classify user-visible changes into New, Improved, Fixed; omit empty sections.
  3. Draft primary locale notes:
    • lead with the clearest user-facing hook in the first ~170 chars;
    • describe user impact, not implementation;
    • use concrete action verbs;
    • naturally echo relevant local keywords from metadata/version/<version>/<locale>.json when present;
    • target 500-1500 chars, hard limit 4000.
  4. If requested, draft promotionalText <= 170 chars.
  5. Show draft with character count and wait for approval before localizing.
  6. Localize approved notes:
    • formal/professional register and formal "you" where applicable;
    • adapt idioms and tone to local market;
    • echo locale-specific keywords naturally;
    • validate What's New <= 4000 and promo <= 170; shorten, never truncate mid-sentence.
  7. Present a locale table with first 80 chars, counts, promo text/counts; wait for upload approval.
  8. Upload:
    asc apps info edit --app "APP_ID" --version-id "VERSION_ID" --locale "en-US" --whats-new "..."
    asc metadata push --app "APP_ID" --version "1.2.3" --dir "./metadata" --dry-run
    asc metadata push --app "APP_ID" --version "1.2.3" --dir "./metadata"
    
    Include promo via --promotional-text or write promotionalText into canonical JSON before push.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 10d ago First seen · 62 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 6ed0fd947105

Subscribe to this mod's changes

appstore-release-notes-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Xopoko/build-swift-apps (45 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 738 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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