App Store Connect CLI 4.9.0 Released with Agreements, TestFlight and Pricing Enhancements

On August 23, developer @rudrank released App Store Connect CLI 4.9.0 and detailed the new features in a thread of tweets. The update spans five areas: agreement management, TestFlight tester operations, Game Center safety guards, metadata validation, and subscription pricing.

Confirmed

• Agreement management: A new asc web agreements status command shows the ID, title, version, date, and download link of pending Developer Program agreements; account holders can accept agreements with asc web agreements accept. Since Apple does not expose a public App Store Connect API endpoint, this feature is implemented via Web simulation.
• TestFlight testers: Exporting testers now supports exact filtering by name (e.g., --first-name, --last-name). Removing testers gains a --wait flag that keeps polling tester status until it returns 404 or the REVOKED tombstone state (Apple may list removed testers as REVOKED); on timeout, the command still prints a deletion receipt and exits with a non-zero status code.
• Safety guards: Destructive Game Center relationship removals now require a --confirm flag; other destructive operations such as tester removal also require --confirm.
• Metadata validation: Offline metadata checks are enhanced, e.g., asc metadata validate --dir ./metadata --outpu… (for pre-upload checks).
• Subscription pricing: Adds localized subscription price inheritance, computing target subscription prices from a source subscription ID with support for multipliers and rounding rules; also introduces a "pricing guard" that not only provides better keyword data but prevents an Agent from mistakenly removing an app from all sale territories.

Why it matters

• Agreement acceptance previously required manual action on the web; bringing it to the CLI enables automation workflows. The pricing guard protects against the risk of accidental app removal caused by Agent-driven automation, which is especially valuable for developers managing App Store assets automatically.

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