a0.dev · Agent rhythm, new store owner
a0.dev’s AI coding agent—real-time Expo/React Native edits, Convex or Supabase wiring, and one-click store publishing—is why teams stay, not because a0 must own App Store Connect forever. A transition keeps prompt-driven mobile iteration while relocating signing, listings, and production backend credentials onto org accounts and a build pipeline you can name in a vendor review. You still open a0 for agent spikes; production binaries stop depending on a0’s publish ACLs and message history.
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CodeCross LLC calls transition-from-a0 a store-seat swap: the a0.dev coding agent can keep drafting Expo screens, but App Store Connect, Play Console, and production Convex or Supabase leave the chat ACL. EAS (or an equivalent org pipeline) becomes the only way a live listing changes. Finished when a teammate with zero a0 access ships a signed hotfix.
Where habit continuity becomes lock-in
Agent iteration can stay. Production Generate & Submit clicks that never hit the org Expo remote are the failure. The transition names who may mutate what customers install.
That is not an identity provider. Rotation belongs to on-call roles on the destination vault—not buried in chat transcripts.
If a prompt author can ship to production tracks, workspace ACLs are still the control plane. Freeze those paths first.
A “quick republish from a0” during an incident reopens lock-in. Route production-affecting fixes through org Git/EAS.
Until they name EAS and the store consoles, the transition is a story, not an operating model.
How we stage store-release ownership
Allow agent edits on sandbox Bundle IDs and internal tracks. a0 remains writable for experiments; it loses authority to change what customers install from the stores.
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Prompt iteration, web preview, and “View on your Phone” via a0 app / Expo Go continue. They do not justify production submits that skip org credentials.
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Prompt authors get scrubbed non-prod keys. Collaboration stops equaling production store access.
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Runtime upgrades happen in owned Build Settings or Expo config—not only when a0’s upgrade prompt appears.
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Org store and Expo access is enough. a0 preview builds are marked non-prod.
How to
Workshop stays; control plane moves. Success is a store hotfix that lands without a0 admin or an open agent session.
Step 01
Agent iteration, web preview, and sandbox native-build testing stay. Production track uploads that never hit the org tree do not.
Step 02
Transfer or recreate listings under org Apple/Google accounts. Limit a0 integrations to staging credentials.
Step 03
Live Generate & Submit, production OTA pushes, and production Convex/Supabase rotates. Allow prompts on staging Bundle IDs.
Step 04
CI deploys the accepted tree. a0 remains writable for experiments; it cannot change what customers install.
Step 05
Incident docs name EAS and store consoles. Secret rotation no longer requires digging agent message history for keys.
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Bring who can Generate & Submit today and who should own store seats.
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Yes—route agent work to sandbox branches or a non-prod Expo project. Production TestFlight / Play tracks must build from the org tree with org secrets. Continuity fails only when “we still prompt in a0” becomes the path that mutates the live listing or production backend without CI.
Org owners and release managers—not whoever sent the last agent message. Transfer or recreate listings under org Apple/Google accounts; limit a0 integrations to staging credentials. Developers get scrubbed non-prod keys so agent collaboration never equals production store access.
Freeze production-affecting paths: production track uploads, production backend secret rotates, and live listing metadata. Allow agent edits against staging builds and internal tracks. Hotfixes merge through org Git/EAS. a0 remains writable for experiments; it loses authority to change what customers install from the stores.
A teammate without a0 access can ship a signed binary end-to-end. Incident docs name EAS and store consoles—not “open a0 and republish.” a0 preview builds are marked non-prod. Secret rotation no longer requires digging agent message history for keys.
Bring the a0 ACL list and the org Expo remote. We will name the production-affecting path that still lives in chat — or tell you a no-access teammate can already ship.
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