How to automate App Store Connect and Google Play Console tasks

App Store Connect's own API documentation describes exactly this kind of automation: Apple says it lets a developer 'automate tasks across developer tools, such as App Store Connect,' and lists creating new versions, managing phased releases for version updates, submitting a version for review, managing in-app purchase metadata, and maintaining a product page's description, screenshots and previews among what the API covers. Google's Play Developer API covers the same ground for the other store: Google describes it as letting a developer 'automate frequent tasks having to do with app production and distribution,' including uploading new app versions, releasing them, and creating and modifying store listings. Forvibe's Workflows feature is built on that same surface, split between reading, writing, and waiting for a person. A workflow starts from one of five kinds of trigger: a person pressing Run, one of ten store and product events Forvibe already tracks, among them a new version appearing, a version being submitted or going live, an in-app purchase's review state changing, a new customer review, or an app being connected, a fixed schedule, a fixed delay counted from one of those same events, or a check that runs synchronously in the moment right before a specific action and can refuse to let it proceed. From there, a step either reads something, a version, its per-language fields, an in-app purchase's state, a review submission, an existing customer review, or writes to one of a short, fixed set of things: a version's per-language text, the app's name and subtitle, a version's review state, its copyright and App Review contact details, a store listing on either platform, or a reply to one review. Any write step can be set to pause for a person's approval before it runs; submitting a version for review and publishing listing changes both default to asking, and removing a version from review cannot be set to skip asking at all. That approval is not a rubber stamp: the exact values about to be written are resolved and shown before anyone decides, deciding requires being signed into the organization with a role that can write to it rather than just clicking a link from an email, and a request nobody answers fails the run instead of going through by default. A guardrail, the trigger that runs before an action rather than after one, only ever reads and checks, never writes, because a person or process is left waiting on its answer, and it has thirty seconds to reach a verdict. It can only actually stop an action taken through Forvibe itself: publishing listing changes is checked whether it starts from the dashboard or from Forvibe's own MCP server, and submitting a version for review is checked when it starts from the dashboard. A change made directly inside App Store Connect's own web interface can't be intercepted either way. It's only noticed within about fifteen minutes, by the same poller that checks App Store Connect for changes made outside Forvibe, and it can raise an alert instead of a block. Google Play has no equivalent after-the-fact check at all. Because neither store gives a reliable way to confirm whether a request that appears to have failed actually went through, a write step that dies mid-run is never retried automatically; it fails the run and says so, so the actual state gets checked directly rather than assumed.