confirm() prints 'declined: <reason>' and exits 3 whenever the answer is no or nobody can answer (not a
terminal without --yes, serve without the owner's dialog), so no command reports success after declining.
flow run stops at such a step with 'step N declined: <reason>' (status declined), never ok. flow run
--apply --yes passes --yes to write steps only; --yes without --apply is refused. Pitfall 24.
apple build and play build run build.prebuild (or apple.prebuild / play.prebuild) first, once per flow run;
--no-prebuild skips it, --dry only prints it. A Capacitor project's copied public/index.html must then be newer
than the last source commit and <webDir>/index.html, else the build stops (--allow-stale-web overrides). check
warns when stale without a prebuild; the build output and dry plan show the web bundle's sha256 and mtime.
The Capacitor project is also found in a monorepo (apps/native etc.); several ask for play.build.dir /
apple.build.*. Pitfall 23.
A phone-only project aborted with 'no sevenInchScreenshots'. Play requires the 512 icon, the 1024x500 feature graphic and at least 2 screenshots (Play Console Help answer 9866151). play images uploads what exists and prints an info line for missing optional sets; play.tablets true makes missing tablet sets an error in shots render/check/gallery, validate and play images. Pitfall 19.
Google binds its session cookies to the device (Device Bound Session Credentials) and signs out
sessions whose cookies look stolen, which can sign the owner out of their real Chrome. The default is
now storebound's own profile per store; storebound starts Chrome itself (--user-data-dir,
--remote-debugging-port=0, no --enable-automation, navigator.webdriver false) and attaches over CDP.
--use-chrome-session google|apple is an explicit opt-in that warns. /signin/rejected is said plainly.
Google's account widget and cookie rotation frames (accounts.google.com /
ogs.google.com) on a signed-in Play Console no longer count as a sign-in
page. Each detection logs its rule and URL; heartbeats name the page; a
copied Chrome session that lands on a sign-in URL is said plainly; the
sign-in wait gets a watchdog dump, and --debug-dump up to 3 dumps.
Fixtures and tests for the chooser and home with the widget frames and a
top-level accounts.google.com page; pitfall 16.
A real run (sanitized debug dump) showed why the walk stopped after Next:
the data types step is the same "Data Collection" dialog (URL unchanged),
and each checkbox's accessible name is its label run together with its
help text ("NameIncluding first or last name"). Some labels also differ
from Apple's help page ("Purchases", "Other Data").
- labelNames: the exact name, then the label as a prefix that ends where
the help text starts (no lowercase letter follows), so "Name" never
matches "Phone Number...", "Head" never "Health...", "Contact" never
"Contacts...". Used for the data types and the purposes.
TYPE_ALIASES maps Purchase History / Other Data Types to the console's
labels.
- Dialog per step: a section's dialog is also found as the one visible
dialog with a heading of that name.
- Every click and check is bounded (ACTION_MS, 10 s; the scan test now
also rejects clicks without a timeout).
- The flow fixture mirrors the real dialog's structure (dialog/h2 title,
group h3s, input name = Apple's enum, <label> with label + help <p>s,
Save disabled until a type is ticked); no data from the dump. A test
checks every Apple type matches exactly one real-style checkbox.
- Pitfall 15.
Publish is still never clicked; unknown steps still get the watchdog dump.
A real `console fill apple-app-privacy` clicked Next onto a console page
the engine did not recognise and logged nothing for 8 hours.
- Step watchdog: after a click, or while the form is expected, no known
page within --step-timeout seconds (default 30) -> "the page after
"Next" is not a page storebound knows ... Buttons there: ...", a debug
dump, and the manual steps. It keeps watching, but 20 min without
progress closes the window and exits 1.
- A heartbeat line every minute while waiting (also during sign-in); the
final review wait is bounded (2 h) with a reminder every 10 min.
- Debug dump (cli/console/debug.ts) in .storebound/console-debug/
<form>-<time>/: page.json (URL without query, headings, dialogs, every
visible control with role and name), page.html (rebuilt from a clone:
no scripts, values, hidden inputs or non-whitelisted attributes) and a
small screenshot. Emails, phone numbers and the header / account area
are replaced; cookies, storage and tokens are never read.
--debug-dump writes one at every step for bug reports.
- Guardrail tests: an unknown-page fixture (dump sanitized, bounded exit)
and a scan of cli/console for while loops without a deadline and
Playwright waits without a timeout (one waitForLoadState fixed).
- Pitfall 14 (docs/pitfalls.md, store-pitfalls skill); the
console-autofill skill says how to send a dump.
- aso competitors: top apps per keyword from the iTunes Search API (name, developer,
rating count, release / update dates, localized genre), coverage gaps (words of 2+
developers), new entrants vs the last snapshot (.storebound/aso/competitors/)
- aso suggest: candidates from own text, competitor names, localized category names and
Apple Ads keyword suggestions (POST /v1/suggestions/keywords/query, relative 0-100
popularity, only with credentials); 100-byte keyword field per locale as a diff,
--write marks it a draft that check --aso and aso audit report
- aso audit: check --aso, free keyword room, rank trend arrows, gaps, Play short
description / density, App Store conversion, PPO / Play experiment ideas, next 3 actions
- MCP: read-only aso_competitors, aso_suggest, aso_audit; desktop ASO card (visx rank chart)
- docs: README, aso-basics, store-pitfalls (Search API order, no Play search API), CHANGELOG;
demo-app listing files; tests on recorded Search API and mocked Ads answers
