Release Review

Release Review is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by rshankras in claude-code-apple-skills.

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Install Release Review

Copy Release Review into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/tree/main/skills/release-review ~/.claude/skills/release-review

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/release-review/SKILL.md in rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/release-review
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Release Review does

Release Review performs a senior-level pre-release audit for macOS and iOS apps. Use it to catch security, privacy, UX, API, and distribution issues before shipping or submitting to the App Store.

Release Review is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Release Review comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-tools, anthropic, app-store and apple.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Release Review for Apple Platforms

Performs a comprehensive pre-release audit of macOS and iOS applications from a senior developer's perspective. Identifies critical issues that could cause rejection, security vulnerabilities, privacy concerns, and UX problems—with actionable fixes.

When This Skill Activates

Use this skill when the user:

Says "review for release", "release review", or "pre-release audit"
Asks for "senior developer review" or "critical review"
Mentions preparing for "App Store", "TestFlight", or "notarization"
Wants to know what "power users might complain about"
Asks to "review before shipping" or "check before release"

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Release Review

What else does rshankras publish alongside Release Review?
Release Review is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Ad Attribution, App Description Writer and App Store Optimization. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Release Review does, and is maintained by rshankras in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills page.
How does Release Review compare to other Quality skills?
Release Review ranks #1100 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Release Review against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.