Appstore Release Skill

appstore-release-skill

Ship an iOS release through the App Store Connect **web UI** when the GitHub Actions CD pipeline can't run, and monitor TestFlight processing when there's no build to submit yet.

Primary trigger — the job never starts, no step logs, just:

deploy
The job was not started because recent account payments have failed or your spending
limit needs to be increased. Please check the 'Billing & plans' section in your settings

Also covers: Actions disabled, macOS minutes exhausted, runner unavailable, stuck concurrency group, org policy block.

Extracted from a real 13-locale TalkTrans 2.3.0 submission.

Install

Claude Code picks up skills from `~/.claude/skills/` (user) or `.claude/skills/` (project):

git clone https://github.com/2sem/appstore-release-skill.git
ln -s "$PWD/appstore-release-skill" ~/.claude/skills/appstore-release-skill

Then `/appstore-release-skill`, or let it trigger on "CD is blocked, submit 2.3.0 manually" / "no build to submit, watch TestFlight".

Contents

Path	What it is
SKILL.md	The procedure: confirm the GitHub block → read version state → create/reconcile the version against the release branch → attach the build → fill patch notes per locale → checksum-verify → submit → repo bookkeeping
references/cd-fallback-triggers.md	GitHub-limit vs real-build-failure table, gh commands, local archive + upload fallback
references/testflight-build-monitor.md	processingState table, polling cadence, the no-build-at-all path
references/asc-web-playbook.md	Locale label mapping, 2-call-per-locale browser loop, UI quirks, iris endpoints
scripts/verify_release_notes.py	Codepoint length+sum diff of submitted text vs fastlane/metadata/*/release_notes.txt

Requirements

• Claude in Chrome tools, with an App Store Connect session already signed in (the skill never enters credentials)
• fastlane/metadata//release_notes.txt as the source of truth