# flows-external-app-submit

Acts as the final gate in the Cognite Flows app certification pipeline. It verifies review reports, checks App-Brief.md, and triggers the CLI submit command.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1100 installs · ★ 6
- Author: cognitedata
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/cognitedata/builder-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/flows-external-app-submit/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-20
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/flows-external-app-submit

## What it does

This skill serves as the fourth step in the Flows app certification flow, following the brief, the build, code review, and design review. It runs no new audits. Instead, it reads committed reports in git and stops if required thresholds fail.

A valid `App-Brief.md` must sit in the repository root with nine required frontmatter fields like `appName` and `customer`. The latest code review report must show zero open Must Fix items. For design review, the average score must reach 3.8 or higher. The skill also requires an up-to-date deployment bundle inside `.cognite-bundles/`.

Because `apps submit` uses `git archive HEAD`, uncommitted files will be silently excluded from the final archive. If you need to submit without waiting for manual reviews, the skill offers air-hatch stubs in round 0 marked as SKIPPED. However, `App-Brief.md` cannot be stubbed out.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add cognitedata/builder-skills --skill flows-external-app-submit -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/flows-external-app-submit/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/flows-external-app-submit/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add cognitedata/builder-skills --skill flows-external-app-submit -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/flows-external-app-submit/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add cognitedata/builder-skills --skill flows-external-app-submit -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/flows-external-app-submit/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install cognitedata/builder-skills flows-external-app-submit
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/flows-external-app-submit/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add cognitedata/builder-skills --skill flows-external-app-submit -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/cognitedata/builder-skills --path skills/flows-external-app-submit
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/flows-external-app-submit/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add cognitedata/builder-skills --skill flows-external-app-submit -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/cognitedata/builder-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/flows-external-app-submit/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Validate Cognite Flows certification criteria before submission
- Confirm zero open Must Fix items in the latest code review report
- Check that design review meets the 3.8 average score threshold
- Archive and package the repository via `npx @cognite/cli apps submit`

## Example prompts
- Verify all certification artifacts and run flows-external-app-submit
- Check my code review and design scores, then submit the Flows app
- Run the final verification gate before invoking apps submit

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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````text
---
name: flows-external-app-submit
description: >-
  Final gate of the Flows app certification flow for external submission.
  Verifies that flows-app-brief, flows-code-review, and flows-design-review have
  all been run and are in a passing state (App-Brief.md complete, 0 Must Fix in
  latest code review, design average ≥ 3.8), then runs
  `npx @cognite/cli apps submit` to zip the repo and pre-populate the submission
  form. Use when the user asks to submit a Flows app for certification, run
  flows-external-app-submit, or finalize an app for external review.
allowed-tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Bash, AskQuestion, Write
---

# Flows External App Submit

This is **step 4** (final) of the Flows app certification flow:

```
flows-app-brief  →  build  →  flows-code-review  →  flows-design-review  →  flows-external-app-submit (this skill)
```

This skill **does not** rerun any review. It verifies the artifacts from the prior three steps and only then invokes the CLI submit command.

## Preconditions (show these to the user first)

Before doing anything, print this checklist so the user knows exactly what is being verified:

1. `App-Brief.md` exists at repo root and all **required** frontmatter fields are populated.
2. The latest `reviews/code-review/feedback-round-<N>/code-review-report.md` is **committed to git** and reports **`Must Fix open: 0`**.
3. The latest `reviews/design-review/feedback-round-<N>/design-review-report.md` is **committed to git** and reports **`Average score: X.X`** with **X.X ≥ 3.8**.
4. Certification artifacts are committed — `apps submit` uses `git archive HEAD` and silently excludes uncommitted files.
5. A deploy bundle exists in `.cognite-bundles/` and is not older than HEAD.

## Step 0 — Air-hatch preflight (offer stubs if reviews are missing)

`App-Brief.md` is non-negotiable — it captures the value case the certification reviewer reads first. The code and design reviews, however, can be air-hatched with a clear "SKIPPED" status that the reviewer will see and act on. Use this when the user wants to submit without spending the 20+ minutes each review takes.

Probe for each review artifact via `git ls-files`:

```bash
git ls-files 'reviews/code-review/'   | grep -q 'code-review-report.md'   && echo code_present   || echo code_missing
git ls-files 'reviews/design-review/' | grep -q 'design-review-report.md' && echo design_present || echo design_missing
```

- Both reports present → skip Step 0, continue at Step 1.
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