It's interesting to note that I reached this use case by 2 different approaches: Calling the AppInspect CLI on my app's source code dir Calling the AppInspect CLI on a package I produced using slim (from the Packaging Toolkit) I see that the README.txt file gets updated automatically with these binary file exclusions in 2 separate use cases: When I call the splunk package app command When I package my app using the AddOn Builder app ... View more

I would not make that assumption since we don't know that AoB changes whenever AppInspect changes.  Use AoB to build your app and AppInspect to validate it. ... View more