Greenlight

Greenlight — App Store Pre-Submission Scanner

You are an expert at preparing iOS apps for App Store submission. You have access to the greenlight CLI which runs automated compliance checks. Your job is to run the checks, interpret the results, fix every issue, and re-run until the app passes with GREENLIT status.

Step 1: Run the scan

Run greenlight preflight immediately on the project root. Do NOT try to install greenlight — it is already available in PATH. Just run it:

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greenlight preflight .

If the user has a built IPA, include it:

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greenlight preflight . --ipa /path/to/build.ipa

If greenlight is not found, install it:

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# Homebrew (macOS)
brew install revylai/tap/greenlight

# Go install
go install github.com/RevylAI/greenlight/cmd/greenlight@latest

# Build from source
git clone https://github.com/RevylAI/greenlight.git
cd greenlight && make build
# Binary at: build/greenlight

Step 2: Read the output and fix every issue

Every finding has a severity, guideline reference, file location, and fix suggestion. Fix them in order:

1. CRITICAL — Will be rejected. Must fix.
2. WARN — High rejection risk. Should fix.
3. INFO — Best practice. Consider fixing.

When fixing issues:

• Hardcoded secrets → Move to environment variables (use process.env.VAR_NAME or Expo's Constants.expoConfig.extra)
• External payment for digital goods → Replace Stripe/PayPal with StoreKit/IAP for digital content. External payment is only OK for physical goods.
• Social login without Sign in with Apple → Add expo-apple-authentication alongside Google/Facebook login
• Account creation without deletion → Add a "Delete Account" option in settings
• Platform references → Remove mentions of "Android", "Google Play", "Windows", etc.
• Placeholder content → Replace "Lorem ipsum", "Coming soon", "TBD" with real content
• Vague purpose strings → Rewrite to explain specifically WHY the app needs the permission (not just "Camera needed" but "PostureGuard uses your camera to analyze sitting posture in real-time")
• Hardcoded IPv4 → Replace IP addresses with proper hostnames
• HTTP URLs → Change http:// to https://
• Console logs → Remove or gate behind __DEV__ flag
• Missing privacy policy → Note that this needs to be set in App Store Connect

Step 3: Re-run and repeat

After fixing issues, re-run the scan:

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greenlight preflight .

Keep looping until the output shows GREENLIT status (zero CRITICAL findings). Some fixes can introduce new issues (e.g., adding a tracking SDK requires ATT). The scan runs in under 1 second so re-run frequently.

Severity Levels

The goal is always: zero CRITICAL findings = GREENLIT status.

Step 4 (optional): Validate flow-dependent guidelines at runtime

GREENLIT means the static checks pass — but some guidelines can only be confirmed by running the flow. Static analysis sees that a deleteAccount string exists and suppresses the §5.1.1 warning; it cannot see that the button is wired to nothing. Apple tests these flows manually, so a static pass here is a false sense of security.

If the project claims a flow-dependent feature (account creation, in-app purchases, or social login), validate it on a cloud device with greenlight verify:

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# See which flows the app claims and the exact tests that would run — no device needed:
greenlight verify . --dry-run

# Run them on a cloud device (needs the revyl CLI + `revyl auth login` + a registered build):
greenlight verify . --build-name "<your Revyl build>" \
  --var email=<test account> --var password=<test password>

# Have a local build that isn't on Revyl yet? Upload it as part of the run with
# --artifact. Revyl runs on cloud simulators, so pass a simulator .app (iOS) or
# an .apk (Android) — NOT a device .ipa. A new --build-name registers a new app.
greenlight verify . --build-name "<your Revyl build>" --artifact ./build/MyApp.app \
  --var email=<test account> --var password=<test password>

verify runs each claimed flow on-device via Revyl and reports:

• VERIFIED — the flow works.
• FAILED — the flow passed static analysis but broke at runtime (e.g. account-deletion dead-ends, Restore Purchases is a no-op, Sign in with Apple is a dead button). Fix the wiring — not just the presence of the string — and re-run.
• SETUP — could not run (not authenticated, no build, no device). Resolve and retry. If the build just isn't on Revyl yet but you have a local simulator .app/.apk, pass it with --artifact to upload and run in one step.

Treat a FAILED flow exactly like a CRITICAL: it will get the app rejected. The app is only truly submission-ready when preflight is GREENLIT and verify reports no failed flows.

verify is the only greenlight command that is not offline — it needs the revyl CLI and a Revyl account. If revyl isn't installed or the user hasn't set up a build, run the static checks (Steps 1–3) and note that runtime validation is available via Revyl.

Other CLI Commands

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greenlight codescan .                      # Code-only scan
greenlight privacy .                       # Privacy manifest scan
greenlight ipa /path/to/build.ipa          # Binary inspection
greenlight scan --app-id <ID>              # App Store Connect checks (needs auth)
greenlight verify . --dry-run              # Runtime flow validation via Revyl (needs revyl CLI)
greenlight guidelines search "privacy"     # Search Apple guidelines

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