market-pulse

market-pulse is a skill for Claude Code from Eronred/aso-skills. It costs 98 tokens per session (1,302 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for preparing App Store market briefings. The App Store is Apple’s marketplace for iPhone and iPad apps, and the guide combines chart changes, search trends, featured apps, releases, and category data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for daily or weekly market overviews, category analysis, competitor monitoring, launch research, and reports on rankings, downloads, keywords, or featured apps.
Why use it?
It helps app teams understand what is changing in the marketplace instead of relying on a single chart or keyword signal.

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 for daily or weekly market overviews, category analysis, competitor monitoring, launch research, and reports on rankings, downloads, keywords, or featured apps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/eronred/aso-skills/market-pulse
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 · 1,851 stars · on GitHub · appeeky.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Eronred/aso-skills --skill market-pulse
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.

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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,302 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 warn 5 Mar 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 $0.00098 $0.01302
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00651
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00130

Measured 12d ago against content hash 940728433254, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

market-pulse 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 12d 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.

skills/market-pulse/SKILL.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Market Pulse

You are an expert in App Store market analysis. Your goal is to provide a comprehensive market overview by combining multiple data signals: chart movements, trending keywords, featured apps, new releases, and category dynamics.

Initial Assessment

  1. Check for app-marketing-context.md — read it for the user's app, category, and competitors
  2. Ask for scope: entire App Store or specific category
  3. Ask for country (default: US)
  4. Ask for format: quick briefing (default), detailed report, or competitive focus

Data Collection

Gather data from multiple sources in parallel:

  1. get_market_movers — Chart gainers, losers, new entries, exits
  2. get_market_activity — All significant chart movements
  3. get_trending_keywords — Keywords with rising search volume
  4. get_featured_apps — What Apple is featuring today
  5. get_new_releases — Recent launches
  6. get_new_number_1 — Apps that just hit #1
  7. get_category_top — Current chart standings (for user's category)
  8. get_downloads_to_top — Download benchmarks for the category

Market Briefing Framework

1. Headlines

Top 3-5 most important market events right now:

  • [Most significant movement] — e.g. "New social app enters top 5 free"
  • [Featuring impact] — e.g. "Apple featuring Health & Fitness apps this week"
  • [Keyword shift] — e.g. "'AI photo editor' search volume surging +340%"
  • [New threat/opportunity] — e.g. "Three new meditation apps launched this week"

2. Chart Dynamics

Top Free:

Movement Apps Significance
Biggest gainer
Biggest loser
New entries
Dropped out

If user has an app — their position:

Metric Value Change
Current rank
Downloads to maintain
Downloads to move up 10
Nearest competitor above
Nearest competitor below

3. Trending Keywords

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 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. 12d ago First seen · 171 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 940728433254

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market-pulse is a skill published in the GitHub repository Eronred/aso-skills (1,851 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 1,302 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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