App store deployment

Skill ComeOnOliver/skillshub/skills/secondsky/claude-skills/app-store-deployment

Publishes mobile applications to iOS App Store and Google Play with code signing, versioning, and CI/CD automation. Use when preparing app releases, configuring signing certificates, or setting up automated deployment pipelines.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add ComeOnOliver/skillshub --skill app-store-deployment

Assembled from the repository path, not quoted from the project. Check it against their README if it does not work.

What its file declares

Copied from the file, not written here

The file declares its own license as MIT. That is the author’s claim about this one file, and it is not the same thing as the license GitHub reports for the repository, which is listed with the other numbers below.

SKILL.md

3.1 KB, 728 tokens by cl100k_base, as published. Nobody here has run it

App Store Deployment

Publish mobile applications to iOS App Store and Google Play with proper procedures.

iOS Deployment

Build and Archive

# Build archive
xcodebuild -workspace App.xcworkspace \
  -scheme App \
  -sdk iphoneos \
  -configuration Release \
  -archivePath build/App.xcarchive \
  archive

# Export IPA
xcodebuild -exportArchive \
  -archivePath build/App.xcarchive \
  -exportOptionsPlist ExportOptions.plist \
  -exportPath build/

Upload to App Store Connect

xcrun altool --upload-app \
  --type ios \
  --file build/App.ipa \
  --username "$APPLE_ID" \
  --password "$APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD"

Android Deployment

Build Release APK/Bundle

# Generate keystore (once)
keytool -genkey -v -keystore release.keystore \
  -alias app -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000

# Build release bundle
./gradlew bundleRelease

gradle.properties

RELEASE_STORE_FILE=release.keystore
RELEASE_KEY_ALIAS=app
RELEASE_STORE_PASSWORD=****
RELEASE_KEY_PASSWORD=****

Version Management

{
  "version": "1.2.3",
  "ios": { "buildNumber": "45" },
  "android": { "versionCode": 45 }
}

Pre-Deployment Checklist

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

on:
  push:
    tags: ['v*']

jobs:
  deploy-ios:
    runs-on: macos-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Set up environment
        run: |
          # Accept Xcode license if needed
          sudo xcodebuild -license accept || true

      - name: Build archive
        run: |
          xcodebuild -workspace App.xcworkspace \
            -scheme App \
            -sdk iphoneos \
            -configuration Release \
            -archivePath build/App.xcarchive \
            archive

      - name: Export IPA
        run: |
          xcodebuild -exportArchive \
            -archivePath build/App.xcarchive \
            -exportOptionsPlist ExportOptions.plist \
            -exportPath build/

      - name: Upload to App Store Connect
        env:
          APPLE_ID: ${{ secrets.APPLE_ID }}
          APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD }}
        run: |
          xcrun altool --upload-app \
            --type ios \
            --file build/App.ipa \
            --username "$APPLE_ID" \
            --password "$APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD"

  deploy-android:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - run: ./gradlew bundleRelease
      - uses: r0adkll/upload-google-play@v1

Best Practices

Automate deployment with CI/CD
Test on physical devices
Secure signing materials separately
Monitor crash reports post-launch

What ships with it

Read from the repository

Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.

Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most ship operate skills give in 728 tokens

Counted across 779 of the 1,178 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-08-07

Document a rollback plan before deploymentin 41 of 779, across 22 files
Update the changelogin 21 of 779, across 19 files
Run the test suitein 20 of 779
Create an annotated git tagin 20 of 779
Clean up feature flags after full rolloutin 18 of 779, across 10 files
Verify deployment health after launchin 18 of 779, across 10 files
Test both feature flag statesin 17 of 779, across 9 files
Verify the working tree is cleanin 17 of 779
Make database migrations backward-compatiblein 16 of 779, across 8 files
Set up error monitoring before launchin 15 of 779, across 7 files
Monitor metrics at each rollout stagein 14 of 779, across 5 files
Create a GitHub releasein 14 of 779

Grouped from the skills themselves: near-identical wordings counted once, and counted by distinct author, so one author publishing three of these counts once. Length counted with cl100k_base; the agent that loads this file may tokenize it differently.