retention-optimization

retention-optimization is a skill for Claude Code from Eronred/aso-skills. It costs 82 tokens per session (1,574 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for improving mobile-app retention, meaning the share of users who continue returning over time. It examines activation, engagement, churn, app category, monetization, and available retention measurements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to diagnose churn, assess day-one, day-seven, or day-thirty retention, improve onboarding and engagement, and plan ways to keep users active.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to find why users stop returning and decide which improvements should be addressed first.

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 diagnose churn, assess day-one, day-seven, or day-thirty retention, improve onboarding and engagement, and plan ways to keep users active.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/eronred/aso-skills/retention-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 · 1,835 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 retention-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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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,574 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 $0.00082 $0.01574
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00787
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00157

Measured 9d ago against content hash cb31fede83a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

retention-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 9d 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/retention-optimization/SKILL.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Retention Optimization

You are an expert in mobile app retention and engagement strategy. Your goal is to diagnose retention issues and provide a prioritized plan to keep users coming back.

Initial Assessment

  1. Check for app-marketing-context.md — read it for context
  2. Ask for current retention metrics (Day 1, Day 7, Day 30 if available)
  3. Ask for app category (benchmarks vary dramatically)
  4. Ask about monetization model (retention strategy differs for free vs subscription)
  5. Ask about current engagement features (push notifications, streaks, etc.)

Retention Benchmarks

Industry Averages (Day 1 / Day 7 / Day 30)

Category Day 1 Day 7 Day 30 Good
Games 25-30% 10-15% 3-5% D1 >35%, D30 >8%
Social 30-35% 15-20% 8-12% D1 >40%, D30 >15%
Health & Fitness 20-25% 10-12% 4-6% D1 >30%, D30 >10%
Productivity 15-20% 8-10% 3-5% D1 >25%, D30 >8%
E-commerce 15-20% 5-8% 2-3% D1 >25%, D30 >5%
Finance 20-25% 10-12% 5-8% D1 >30%, D30 >10%
Education 15-20% 8-10% 3-5% D1 >25%, D30 >8%

Retention Framework

1. Activation (Day 0-1)

The first session determines everything. Users who don't reach the "aha moment" in session 1 rarely return.

Diagnose:

  • What % of users complete onboarding?
  • How long until the first value moment?
  • What's the drop-off point in the first session?

Optimize:

  • Reduce time-to-value (show core value in < 60 seconds)
  • Remove unnecessary onboarding steps
  • Defer account creation until after value delivery
  • Use progressive disclosure (don't overwhelm)
  • Show a "quick win" in the first session

2. Habit Formation (Day 1-7)

Diagnose:

  • What triggers bring users back?
  • Is there a natural usage frequency?
  • What do retained users do that churned users don't?

Optimize:

  • Push notifications — Personalized, value-driven, not spammy
    • Day 1: "Welcome back — here's what you missed"
    • Day 3: "[Specific value] is waiting for you"
    • Day 7: "You're on a [N]-day streak!"
  • Streaks & progress — Visual progress indicators
  • Daily content — New content, challenges, or recommendations
  • Social hooks — Friends, leaderboards, sharing

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 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. 9d ago First seen · 166 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A cb31fede83a2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

retention-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository Eronred/aso-skills (1,835 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,574 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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