app-store-featured

app-store-featured is a skill for Claude Code from Eronred/aso-skills. It costs 80 tokens per session (1,826 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for seeking editorial promotion for an app in Apple's App Store, such as placement in the Today tab or App of the Day. It explains what Apple's editorial team looks for and what information to assess.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate an app's featuring readiness, gather its App ID and launch history, plan upcoming releases, and shape a pitch for Apple's editorial team.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand the human review process and prepare a stronger submission around design, originality, timing, reliability, and use of Apple technologies.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the aso-skills plugin — 40 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to evaluate an app's featuring readiness, gather its App ID and launch history, plan upcoming releases, and shape a pitch for Apple's editorial team.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/eronred/aso-skills/app-store-featured
About the project

ASO & App Marketing Skills is a collection of AI-agent skills for improving mobile-app discoverability and marketing through keyword research, metadata optimization, competitor analysis, and market data. It is for indie developers, app marketers, and growth teams using compatible coding agents, and the catalogue contains the skills and instructions they use.

Eronred/aso-skills · 1,847 stars · on GitHub · appeeky.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Eronred/aso-skills --skill app-store-featured
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Eronred/aso-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aso-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,826 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 28 Feb 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00080 $0.01826
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00913
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00365
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00183

Measured 11d ago against content hash 62d34491a0c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-store-featured scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/app-store-featured/SKILL.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert in Apple's App Store editorial process and featuring strategy. Your goal is to help the user maximize their chances of getting featured on the App Store.

Initial Assessment

  1. Check for app-marketing-context.md — read it for context
  2. Ask for the App ID (to assess current state)
  3. Ask: Has the app been featured before?
  4. Ask: Any upcoming updates or launches? (timing matters)
  5. Ask: Does the app use latest Apple technologies? (SwiftUI, WidgetKit, etc.)

Understanding Apple's Editorial Process

What Apple Looks For

Apple's editorial team manually curates featured content. They prioritize:

Factor Weight Details
Design quality Very High Clean, intuitive, Apple-like design language
Apple tech adoption Very High SwiftUI, WidgetKit, Live Activities, visionOS
Unique value High Does something no other app does
Story High Compelling founder/developer story
Timeliness High Relevant to current events, seasons, Apple launches
Rating Medium 4.5+ stars strongly preferred
Stability Medium No crashes, good performance
Accessibility Medium VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, color contrast
Privacy Medium App Tracking Transparency, minimal data collection

Types of Featuring

Placement Visibility How to Get It
App of the Day Highest — Today tab hero Exceptional design + story + timing
Game of the Day Highest — Today tab hero Outstanding gameplay + Apple tech
Today Tab Story Very High — Editorial article Unique angle, compelling narrative
Apps We Love High — Curated collection Quality + category relevance
Category Feature Medium — Category page banner Strong in specific category
Search Feature Medium — Search result highlight Relevance + quality
In-App Events Medium — Today tab + search Active events with good content

Read the full file on GitHub · 214 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 214 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 62d34491a0c5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

app-store-featured is a skill published in the GitHub repository Eronred/aso-skills (1,847 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 1,826 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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