app-description-writer

app-description-writer is a skill for Claude Code from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,220 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for App Store listings, including descriptions, promotional text, and update notes for mobile apps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft or improve an initial App Store description, promotional text, or copy for a major app update.
Why use it?
It helps turn information about an app, its users, features, and tone into store-page copy.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the apple-skills plugin — 147 skills shipped together , and of apple-skills

Good fit Use it to draft or improve an initial App Store description, promotional text, or copy for a major app update.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/app-description-writer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills --skill app-description-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install apple-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 147 skills.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,220 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
  • 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 $0.00038 $0.01220
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00610
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00122

Measured 10d ago against content hash f91ea0e19c40, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-description-writer 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 10d 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/app-store/app-description-writer/SKILL.md · 239 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

App Description Writer

Generate compelling App Store descriptions that convert browsers into users.

When This Skill Activates

  • User needs to write initial App Store description
  • User wants to improve existing description
  • User is preparing for a major update
  • User asks about promotional text or What's New

Information Gathering

Before writing, ask about:

  1. App Basics

    • What does the app do? (one sentence)
    • Who is it for? (target audience)
    • What problem does it solve?
  2. Key Features

    • Top 3-5 features
    • What makes it unique vs competitors?
    • Any awards or recognition?
  3. Social Proof

    • Number of users/downloads (if impressive)
    • Notable reviews or press mentions
    • Any partnerships or integrations?
  4. Tone

    • Professional / Casual / Fun / Technical?
    • Brand voice keywords?

Output Format

Generate all three text types:

1. Promotional Text (170 characters)

  • First thing users see
  • Should create curiosity or urgency
  • Can be updated without app review
  • Good for seasonal/sale messaging

2. Full Description (4000 characters max)

Structure:

[Opening Hook - 1-2 sentences, problem/benefit focused]

[Key Features with emoji bullets]
• Feature 1 - benefit
• Feature 2 - benefit
• Feature 3 - benefit

[Social Proof paragraph - optional]

[How it works - brief explanation]

[Call to action]

[Support/contact info]

3. What's New (4000 characters)

For updates:

[Version X.X highlights]

NEW
• Feature addition

IMPROVED
• Enhancement

FIXED
• Bug fix

Thank you for your feedback!

Best Practices

Do's

  • Lead with the biggest benefit
  • Use short paragraphs (2-3 lines max)
  • Include relevant keywords naturally
  • Use emojis sparingly for scannability
  • End with clear call-to-action
  • Mention if there's a free trial/tier

Don'ts

  • Don't start with "Welcome to..."
  • Don't use ALL CAPS excessively
  • Don't include URLs (they're not clickable)

Examples

Promotional Text Examples

Read the full file on GitHub · 239 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. 10d ago First seen · 239 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A f91ea0e19c40

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app-description-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (713 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,220 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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