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name: store-preflight
description: Run and read the storebound readiness checks before submitting a mobile game - `storebound check` (offline config, copy limits, files), `storebound check --aso`, `storebound validate` (read-only App Store Connect + Google Play report with ordered blockers) and `storebound privacy-manifest`. Use before every submission, when the user asks "is my app ready to submit", or after changing listings, builds, IAPs or SDKs.
---

# Store preflight

CLI: `storebound` (or the MCP tools `check`, `check_aso`, `validate`, `privacy_manifest`). All four are read-only on
the stores; run them freely.

## Order
1. `storebound check`: config, both listing files (limits are checked locally: title 30, subtitle 30, keywords 100
   bytes, Play short 80, notes 500 ...), screenshot copy, Data safety answers, IAP texts (Apple description 45),
   files the config points at, `.storebound/` gitignored. Fix everything it lists; it exits 1 on problems.
2. `storebound check --aso`: keyword field use, repeats, stuffing (`aso-basics`). Errors exit 1, warnings are advice.
3. `storebound privacy-manifest --ios ios/App` (iOS): app manifest, required-reason APIs, SDKs without manifests
   (`privacy-manifest` skill).
4. `storebound validate` (or `--apple` / `--play`): talks to both APIs read-only and prints findings in fix order.
   Exit 1 while there is a blocker. `--json` for scripts.

## Reading `validate`
Each line: number, level (`BLOCKER`, `warn`, `ok`), store, message, and a `fix:` with the command or skill.

| finding | means | fix |
|---|---|---|
| no build attached / build PROCESSING | the version has no usable binary | wait for VALID, then `apple listing --version x --build N` (explicit number) |
| export compliance not answered | the build has no encryption answer | `export-compliance` skill |
| `<locale>`: missing description / keywords / subtitle | text not pushed for a locale | edit `store/appstore.md`, `apple listing` |
| no APP_IPHONE_67 screenshots | 6.9" set missing (required) | `apple screenshots`; iPad apps add the 13" type to `apple.screenshotTypes` |
| review contact missing | App Review information incomplete | `apple review-details` |
| age rating unanswered | new questions Apple added | `apple appinfo` |
| no app price schedule / availability | pricing never set | `apple appinfo`; if the API refuses the first availability record, set it once in App Store Connect > Pricing and Availability |
| IAP MISSING_METADATA / no review screenshot | product incomplete | `apple iap`, `apple iap-review` |
| privacy policy HTTP 404 / unreachable | URL broken | `privacy-policy` skill |
| Play `<lang>`: phoneScreenshots 1/2 | graphics missing | `shots render`, `play images` |
| app-ads.txt lacks lines / 404 | ad networks cannot verify you | `ads-levelplay-checks`; the file lives at the root of the developer website |
| no release on any track | nothing uploaded | `play release <aab>` |
| product purchase option DRAFT | not active | `play products` |

## What validate cannot see (UI-only, check by hand)
App Privacy labels published, Play App content declarations (ads, target audience, content rating, advertising ID),
agreements / tax / banking, countries for production on Play. (TestFlight groups and testers: `storebound apple
testflight status`.) Tell the owner which are still open.