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Issue 87
Hey everyone! I hope you’ve all had a fantastic couple of weeks — welcome to another issue of the newsletter!
This week’s issue covers the following topics:
- Requirement updates to App Store Connect.
- How to manage your project’s tools and skills.
- How to let your agents help you stay on top of your PRs.
Now, let’s dive into it!
⚠️ Reports of stricter requirements when submitting new apps for review
While I haven’t personally run into this myself yet, I’ve seen multiple reports that Apple is increasingly asking developers to submit a video recording of their app running on a physical device as part of the review process for new apps. I don’t think this is a new requirement, but rather a stricter enforcement of existing guidelines around performance and real-device testing and may be part of Apple’s response to the recent surge of “vibe-coded” apps.
A large portion of the community views this as a negative change, with even one user saying they need to automate and fake the video recording, but I strongly disagree. I actually share Mike Rundle’s perspective that this is a good thing!
📦 Luca: A Decentralized Tool and Skills Manager
It’s always great to see an article by my friend Alberto De Bortoli. He’s truly passionate about developer tooling and automation, and consistently comes up with thoughtful ideas and solutions to real problems we face as developers.
This time, he introduces Luca, a decentralized tool and skills manager designed for the AI-augmented developer workflow. The idea is to give teams a simple and lightweight way to define, share, and reuse tools and capabilities across projects without relying on heavy, centralized systems.
🚨 Upcoming SDK minimum requirements for App Store Connect (Last Reminder!)
I shared this news in my previous issue, but I wanted to remind you that from next week (from the 28th of April onwards), all new apps and games uploaded to App Store Connect must be built with the Xcode 26 SDK or later.
Download Xcode 26 now if you haven’t done so yet and make sure your app compiles with it before the deadline!
🍼 A skill that helps you monitor your PRs
As I write less and less of my code these days, and my productivity keeps increasing, I find myself spending more time manually checking PR status, waiting on CI, and responding to review comments than actually implementing changes. That’s why this skill immediately caught my eye.
The babysit-pr skill in the Codex repo is designed to continuously monitor a pull request for CI failures, review comments, mergeability changes, and all the other signals that usually require constant manual checking. Instead of treating a PR as something you occasionally remember to look at, the idea is to have an agent stay on top of it, react to changes, and surface only what actually needs your attention.
I also like that it’s not just about passive monitoring. The skill is built around the idea of taking action when it can: whether that means diagnosing CI failures, retrying flaky checks, or helping process review feedback while still knowing when to hand things back to a human.