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- cli/lib/rt.ts: the runtime layer on node: modules (spawn / spawnSync with Bun's defaults, exit codes and "Executable not found", which with PATHEXT, sleep, serve, Glob, hasher, gunzip, stdin, SQLite, packageRoot, config imports with a type-stripping fallback for Node 20); every Bun.* use in cli/ goes through it - tools/gen-embedded.ts -> cli/lib/embedded.ts: templates/, cli/shots/*.html and Play's Data safety form embedded (replaces Bun text imports; the bundle and the compiled sidecar carry them), checked fresh by bun run ci - package.json: bin dist/storebound.mjs (Node ESM bundle, tools/build-node.ts, prepack), engines node >=20 - bun run ci: node bundle + node smoke (real node: --version, help, check same as Bun, scan, release plan --help, init, MCP handshake + tool call); Forgejo CI sets up Node 20; tests/node-compat.test.ts guards cli/ - install writes npx MCP commands when run with Node; bin/storebound falls back to Node - docs: npx storebound init (Node 20+) or bunx storebound init
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# FAQ
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**Is it only for games?** No. It started with my game, but every command is about store records, not engines or
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genres. `init --profile app` and `--profile subscription-app` give you templates for a utility app with accounts and
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for a subscription app (Data safety, App Privacy, declarations, listing and screenshot copy), the `app` screenshot
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style, account deletion and demo account checks, and subscriptions on both stores. Game-only advice (IARC game
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questions, gameplay footage, ad mediation) is marked as such in the skills.
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**Do I need Claude (or any AI tool)?** No. The CLI is a normal command and the skills are Markdown checklists you can
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read yourself. The AI integrations are optional adapters generated from the same files.
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**Does it fill the questionnaires?** The ones with an API, yes: Play Data safety (the whole form from `dataSafety` in
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the config; the import replaces the form, so the config is the single truth), Apple age rating, content rights,
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categories, price and availability, the export compliance answer and the App Review details. The stores have no
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public API for Play's App content cards (IARC content rating, target audience, ads, advertising ID, app access,
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government / financial / health / news) or for Apple's App Privacy labels. For those, `init` gives you prepared
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answers (`store/declarations.md`, `store/app-privacy.md`, per profile: a utility app with an account, a subscription
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app, or a free-to-play game with ads and IAP),
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and the `store-declarations` skill has the exact clicks: an agent with browser tools can fill them in while you
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watch, or you copy them in yourself. Either way the answers are your statements to the stores: change what does not
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match your app, and the agent asks you whenever the code does not prove an answer. `validate` cannot see these
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forms, so `store-preflight` lists them as a manual check.
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**My app or game is Unity / Godot / Flutter / React Native / native, not web.** Screenshots and clips come from the iOS Simulator
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(`ios-sim`), an Android emulator or device (`android-emu`) or a folder you fill with any tool; only the rendering of
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the store images uses a headless browser. The store commands do not care about the engine at all: they work on
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your AAB / build numbers and listing files.
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**Is my store account safe?** storebound uses the official APIs with keys you create and can revoke, never your
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password. Store writes are dry runs until you say otherwise, and the public steps (submit, release) stay with you.
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Use an App Store Connect key with the App Manager role and a Play service account limited to your app.
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**Why Bun, and does it need Bun?** storebound is developed and tested on Bun (TypeScript, `fetch`, a test runner built in),
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with zero runtime dependencies. You do not need Bun to use it: the npm package runs on Node 20+ (`npx storebound`),
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and `bunx storebound` runs the same CLI on Bun 1.1+.
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**Does it upload my video to YouTube?** No. Play only takes a YouTube URL, and uploading to YouTube needs your Google
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account; `shots video` makes the file, you upload it and paste the URL into `play.video`.
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**Can it run store experiments for me?** On the App Store, mostly: `apple ppo create / upload` builds a Product Page
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Optimization test from your `shots` variants (treatments, locales, screenshots) and you start it (`apple ppo start`
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asks first). Results per treatment are only shown in App Store Connect. Play store listing experiments have no API:
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storebound renders and checks the variant images, you set the experiment up in Play Console.
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**Does it answer reviews by itself?** No. It drafts one file per review, your agent helps write the replies, and only
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the drafts you mark `approved: true` are sent, by you, after a confirmation. Replies that offer something for a rating
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are refused.
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---
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[All docs](README.md) · [README](../README.md)
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