App Console: Google Play, App Store Connect, AdMob

app-console-mcp

Google Play Console, App Store Connect and AdMob from your terminal or from Claude — no browser.

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Driving store consoles through a browser agent burns tokens on screenshots and page snapshots and breaks whenever the UI changes. This project talks to the official APIs instead and answers in a few lines of plain text. Every tool exists twice, with identical output:

• as an MCP tool for Claude Code, Claude Desktop or any MCP client, and
• as a CLI command (appconsole ...) for you, your scripts and CI.

It ships as three Claude Code plugins (Google Play, App Store Connect, AdMob), each with its MCP server and a skill that teaches Claude the safe workflows. It also comes built into Alchemist Coder, the open-source desktop app for Claude Code and Codex: every agent there gets these tools for the services you have set up.

$ appconsole play vitals com.example.app

com.example.app (data up to 2026-10-19): crash: 0.31% 28-day user-perceived (ok, threshold 1.09%) newest versions (last 28 d): v42 0.12% (35% of users) · v41 0.44% (60% of users) anr: 0.52% 28-day user-perceived (ABOVE THRESHOLD, threshold 0.47%) newest versions (last 28 d): v42 0.21% (35% of users) · v41 0.70% (60% of users)

$ appconsole admob report --days 7 --by format --currency USD AdMob 2026-10-20 to 2026-10-26 by format: 128.40 USD (+9% vs previous 7 d: 117.80), 61210 impressions interstitial: 71.10 USD, 9340 impr, eCPM 7.61, match 88%, show 31% banner: 39.75 USD, 47880 impr, eCPM 0.83, match 95%, show 52%

What it can do

✱ AdMob's limited access: Google has to enable your publisher id for these methods (ask your AdMob account manager or AdMob support) and the token needs the admob.monetization scope (appconsole admob login --monetization). Until then they explain what to ask for.

Safe by default. Every tool that changes something is a dry run unless you pass confirm=true (--confirm in the CLI). Google Play dry runs build the change in a draft edit and let Google validate it before discarding it, so you see real errors before anything is published. MCP tools carry readOnlyHint/destructiveHint annotations so clients can auto-approve reads and ask before writes.

Install

You need uv (it fetches Python and the dependencies).

Claude Code plugins (recommended)

/plugin marketplace add Alekla0126/app-console-mcp

/plugin install google-play@app-console /plugin install app-store-connect@app-console /plugin install admob@app-console

Install only the ones you use. Each plugin asks for its credentials (paths and ids; you can leave them empty and use appconsole config instead), adds its MCP server and skill, and puts appconsole on the PATH of Claude's Bash tool.

Any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, VS Code…)

{

"mcpServers": { "google-play": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["--from", "git+https://github.com/Alekla0126/app-console-mcp", "appconsole", "mcp", "play"], "env": { "GOOGLE_PLAY_SERVICE_ACCOUNT": "/path/to/service-account.json" } }, "app-store-connect": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["--from", "git+https://github.com/Alekla0126/app-console-mcp", "appconsole", "mcp", "appstore"] }, "admob": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["--from", "git+https://github.com/Alekla0126/app-console-mcp", "appconsole", "mcp", "admob"] } } }

appconsole mcp all serves the three services as a single server, for clients that take only one.

Or with the Claude Code CLI: claude mcp add google-play -- uvx --from git+https://github.com/Alekla0126/app-console-mcp appconsole mcp play

CLI only

uv tool install git+https://github.com/Alekla0126/app-console-mcp

appconsole --help appconsole play reviews com.example.app --unanswered-only

Credentials

Settings are read from environment variables first, then from ~/.config/appconsole/config.json (appconsole config set KEY VALUE, stored with 600 permissions). Only file paths and ids are stored; keys stay where you keep them. Run appconsole doctor to check all three services.

Google Play setup

1. In a Google Cloud project enable the Google Play Android Developer API and the Google Play Developer Reporting API.
2. Create a service account (IAM & Admin > Service accounts) and a JSON key for it.
3. In Play Console > Users and permissions > Invite new users, add the service account's email and grant what you need: *View app information* (read and vitals), *Manage store presence* (listings), *Release apps to testing tracks* / *Release to production* (uploads and rollouts), *Reply to reviews*.
4. appconsole config set GOOGLE_PLAY_SERVICE_ACCOUNT /path/to/key.json
5. For users, grant and revoke: appconsole config set GOOGLE_PLAY_DEVELOPER_ID , and give the key "Manage users and permissions".

App Store Connect setup

1. App Store Connect > Users and Access > Integrations > App Store Connect API > Team Keys > generate a key. Role *App Manager* covers everything here except sales, which needs *Sales* or *Finance*.
2. Download AuthKey_ .p8 (Apple lets you download it only once) and note the Key ID and the Issuer ID.
3. Configure:

appconsole config set ASC_KEY_ID ABC123XYZ

appconsole config set ASC_ISSUER_ID 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 appconsole config set ASC_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH ~/.appstoreconnect/private_keys/AuthKey_ABC123XYZ.p8 appconsole config set ASC_VENDOR_NUMBER 12345678 # optional, for appstore sales

Already use fastlane? Point ASC_API_KEY_JSON to your api_key.json instead. If the .p8 file sits in ~/.appstoreconnect/private_keys or ~/private_keys, the path is optional.

AdMob setup

AdMob does not accept service accounts, only a Google user, so you authorize once:

1. In a Google Cloud project enable the AdMob API.
2. Configure the OAuth consent screen (External; add yourself as a test user) and set its publishing status to In production — refresh tokens of apps left in *Testing* expire after 7 days. For your own use you will see an "unverified app" warning; that is expected.
3. Create an OAuth client ID of type Desktop app and download its JSON.
4. appconsole admob login --client-secrets client_secret.json (opens the browser once; the token is saved in ~/.config/appconsole/admob-token.json). Add --monetization to also create apps, ad units and mediation groups, once Google enabled your publisher id for them.

Alternative: gcloud application-default credentials with the AdMob scopes — gcloud auth application-default login --scopes=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admob.readonly,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admob.report,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform. With several publisher accounts set ADMOB_PUBLISHER_ID=pub-....

All settings

What the official APIs cannot do

These still need the website, and the tools say so when you hit them:

• Google Play: the *Publish* button when managed publishing is on (and *Send for review* when Google demands it by hand), creating apps, content rating, ads and advertising ID declarations, target audience, app access, custom store listings and listing experiments, replying to reviews older than about a week, and reading back the Data safety answers.
• App Store Connect: creating the app record, App Privacy labels, age rating, app previews, Resolution Center messages. Creating and pricing subscriptions and in-app purchases has an API but isn't implemented yet.
• AdMob: privacy & messaging (GDPR, US states, IDFA), blocking controls, the policy center, payments, app-ads.txt status and users. Creating apps, ad units, mappings and mediation groups exists but only for publishers Google enabled (✱ above).

Development

uv venv && uv pip install -e '.[dev]'

.venv/bin/pytest && .venv/bin/ruff check src tests claude plugin validate .

bin/appconsole and the plugins run the package with uvx --from , which caches the build; after editing the sources use the .venv or add --refresh-package app-console-mcp. For a release, bump the version in pyproject.toml, src/app_console_mcp/__init__.py and the three entries of .claude-plugin/marketplace.json.

Tagging v* runs .github/workflows/publish.yml, which publishes to PyPI and then to the official MCP Registry (server.json). It is off until PyPI trusts the workflow: on pypi.org add a pending trusted publisher (project app-console-mcp, owner Alekla0126, repository app-console-mcp, workflow publish.yml, environment pypi), then gh variable set PUBLISH_PYPI --body true and re-run the workflow.

Until then, .github/workflows/docker.yml (on the same tags, or run by hand) pushes the all-in-one image to ghcr.io/alekla0126/app-console-mcp and lists that image in the MCP Registry instead. The registry reads the image, so the package must be public (GitHub → Packages → app-console-mcp → Package settings → Change visibility). Once PyPI is on, add the image to server.json's packages next to PyPI's, because the registry takes each version once.

A tool is one function decorated with @tool() (or @tool(write=True) with a confirm