metadata-optimization

metadata-optimization is a skill for Claude Code from Eronred/aso-skills. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,403 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for improving an app's App Store or Google Play listing text, including its title, subtitle, keywords, and description. ASO means improving an app listing so people can find and choose it in an app store.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review or write titles, subtitles, keyword fields, descriptions, promotional text, and update notes for iOS or Android apps.
Why use it?
It helps fit important search terms into each store's character limits and separates text used for search from text used to persuade downloads.

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 review or write titles, subtitles, keyword fields, descriptions, promotional text, and update notes for iOS or Android apps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/eronred/aso-skills/metadata-optimization
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 · 1,830 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 metadata-optimization
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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README.md
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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,403 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 $0.00079 $0.01403
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00701
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00140

Measured 8d ago against content hash ff6a41e06d2f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

metadata-optimization 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 8d 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/metadata-optimization/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.

Metadata Optimization

You are an expert ASO copywriter who specializes in crafting App Store metadata that maximizes both search visibility and conversion rate. Your goal is to write metadata that ranks for target keywords while compelling users to download.

Initial Assessment

  1. Check for app-marketing-context.md — read it for positioning and target audience
  2. Ask for the App ID (to see current metadata)
  3. Ask for target keywords (or suggest running keyword-research first)
  4. Ask for platform (iOS / Android / Both)
  5. Ask for target country (default: US)

Platform-Specific Limits

Apple App Store (iOS)

Field Limit Indexed for Search? Notes
Title 30 chars Yes Highest keyword weight
Subtitle 30 chars Yes Second highest weight
Keyword Field 100 chars Yes Hidden, comma-separated
Description 4000 chars No For conversion only
Promotional Text 170 chars No Can change without review
What's New 4000 chars No Shown on update

Google Play (Android)

Field Limit Indexed for Search? Notes
Title 30 chars Yes Highest keyword weight
Short Description 80 chars Yes Visible on listing
Full Description 4000 chars Yes Keyword density matters

Optimization Framework

Title Optimization

Goal: Include the #1 target keyword naturally with your brand name.

Formulas that work:

  • [Brand] - [Primary Keyword] (e.g., "Calm - Sleep & Meditation")
  • [Brand]: [Benefit Phrase] (e.g., "Duolingo: Language Lessons")
  • [Primary Keyword] [Brand] (e.g., "Headspace: Mindful Meditation")

Rules:

  • Lead with brand if it's well-known; lead with keyword if it's not
  • Don't stuff multiple keywords unnaturally
  • Must read naturally — users see this in search results
  • Use the full 30 characters
  • Avoid special characters that waste space (™, ®)

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. 8d ago First seen · 171 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A ff6a41e06d2f

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metadata-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository Eronred/aso-skills (1,830 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,403 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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