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.
Conflicts resolved for both sides:
- cli/lib/plist.ts, cli/lib/zip.ts: one implementation each. plist reads XML (text or
bytes, attributes tolerated) and binary plists; ads scan now reads bytes, so a binary
Info.plist works too. zip gains unzip() for the Play report exports on top of
zipEntries / zipRead.
- apple upload waits with testflight wait's loop (waitForBuild) instead of its own copy;
BUILD_DONE removed.
- config, credentials (profiles, keystore, ASC_VENDOR_NUMBER, now also a profile key),
command table, MCP tools, credentials template, README, CHANGELOG: union.
- MCP: --write stays forbidden; the three pull tools are the listed local-file exception
(LOCAL_WRITE_TOOLS), so scan --write remains unreachable.
- Adapters and API coverage tables regenerated.
- apple testflight wait --build N (progress, timeout, exit 0/1/7) and expire --keep N | --older-than D (dry run, asks)
- apple iap-submit: IAP / subscription / group versions into a review submission; first of a type only with the app
version (--with-version), --no-submit keeps the draft; read-only MCP plan
- apple listing pull, play listing pull (diff, --write), catalog pull (config proposal, never rewritten)
- whats-new --languages / check / apply: one file per language, agent or hook translation, per-store limits
- apple offer-codes, win-back, promoted, preorder; Play pre-registration as a guide (no API)
- apple cpp and apple events: list, create, upload, submit (asks)
- reports: Apple sales / finance, Play earnings / sales into .storebound/reports with summary and CSV
- triage: TestFlight crash / feedback and Play error reports grouped by signature, device, OS
- aso rank: iTunes Search API ranks and competitors, rate limited
- ads scan: AdAttributionKit / SKAdNetwork Info.plist and source checks
- tests against recorded, sanitized answers; skills, README, CHANGELOG
apple signing status|ensure: bundle id capabilities, a distribution certificate from a key made locally (kept in .storebound/signing, never printed), App Store profiles installed for Xcode; Developer ID 403 explained.
apple build / apple upload: xcodebuild archive + export with a generated ExportOptions.plist, next build number, App Store Connect API build upload (or altool), processing wait. Native, Capacitor, React Native, Flutter, Unity projects.
play build / play upload: Gradle bundleRelease with the upload key passed through the environment, next versionCode read back from the AAB, testing tracks only.
originality: offline Guideline 4.3 check (name, listing text, icon and screenshot perceptual hashes, project structure).
New skill build-and-sign; zero new dependencies.
A live run where only the token exchange, edit insert / delete and Reporting :query were let through:
- health / validate: errorIssues:search answered 400 "Unsupported timezone" for America/Los_Angeles (it takes
hour-aligned UTC only); the failure dropped the crash and ANR rates and the reason was cut off in the query string.
Issues are asked in UTC; a failing issues search is a vitals-issues warning; Reporting errors leave out the query.
- play listing --dry / play images --dry wrote into the edit (PUT details and listings, image clears and uploads,
:validate) before discarding it. Now one throwaway edit is read (details, listings, image sha256) and compared
with the local copy, then deleted.
- play.read(): one helper for read-only edits (status, next-version-code), always deleted, warns if the delete fails;
next-version-code counts distinct codes.
- tests on sanitized recorded answers (tests/play-post-reads.test.ts)
prices export --json reads the current prices without writing; inspect --declarations gives Data safety, the App
Privacy answers it suggests, app info, export compliance and App Review details with every question only the owner
can answer; play data-safety keeps the uploaded CSV in .storebound/ so changes since the upload show (Play cannot read
the form back); shots gallery --json carries the renders folder; inspect --render returns one render as a data: URL
from inside the renders folder only.
- API error bodies on one line (errorBody): Google and App Store Connect pretty-print errors, which hid
SERVICE_DISABLED from the Play account check (reported permission instead of api-disabled), broke tables
and turned serve's apps.list error into a JSON fragment
- apps list: failure says the reason and the fix (same words as apps check)
- newest App Store version by createdDate, iOS first (the API groups versions by platform); all versions
read so no platform is missed; per-app reads four at a time
- apps check (apple): team app count from meta.paging.total with a one-app read
- Play Money without units (prices under 1.00) read as 0.xx, not NaN (catalog diff, subscription diffs)
- health: App Store Connect 404 for perfPowerMetrics / diagnosticSignatures means no field data yet;
Play vitals behind a disabled Reporting API say so with the fix
- validate: gracRatingClassificationNumber optional, socialMediaAgeRestricted only when socialMedia is yes,
socialMedia unanswered is a warning
- tests with sanitized recorded responses (tests/store-real-shapes.test.ts)
Play Developer Reporting API v1beta1 (crashRateMetricSet / anrRateMetricSet DAILY queries in America/Los_Angeles,
user-perceived 28-day rates, worst device models, errorIssues:search) and App Store Connect perfPowerMetrics,
diagnostic signatures and TestFlight crash submissions. Thresholds 1.09 % crash / 0.47 % ANR / 8 % per device
(developer.android.com/topic/performance/vitals): over = blocker, from 80 % = warn, in validate too (--no-health).
Weekly Markdown report with week-over-week change in .storebound/health/. MCP: health (read-only), health_report.
- validate: read-only App Store Connect + Play report with ordered blockers (exit 1)
- apple release --phased on|pause|resume|complete and --manual-release (asks first)
- apple status --wait-review (exit 0 approved, 1 rejected, 7 timeout), apple next-build, apple encryption
- play rollout --fraction|--halt|--resume|--complete, play next-version-code
- check --aso, whats-new --since <tag>, privacy-manifest --ios <path>, version
- Apple IAP description limit is 45 characters (App Store Connect Help), not 55
- config: apple.usesNonExemptEncryption, apple.screenshotTypes, ads.appAdsTxt
