Category Positioning

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Wants to choose
• Evaluate their App Store / Google Play category and subcategory — including primary vs secondary category trade-offs
• Chart-rank competitive analysis
• Category-driven discoverability

Example prompts

• “which category”
• “App Store category”
• “primary category”
• “/category-positioning”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Check for app-marketing-context.md
2. 2Ask for the App ID and current categories
3. 3Ask: What does the app actually do in 1 sentence (their words, not marketing)?
4. 4Ask: Goal — install volume, revenue, featuring, top-100 rank in a category?
5. 5Ask: How long has the app been live in the current category? (Recent switches reset some signals)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 3919d7c. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Category Positioning loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 202 tokens; SKILL.md has 892 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~202

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~2.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from appeeky/aso-skills at commit 3919d7c, republished under its MIT licence (© appeeky). 892 words, ~2,197 tokens.

name

category-positioning

description

When the user wants to choose, change, or evaluate their App Store / Google Play category and subcategory — including primary vs secondary category trade-offs, chart-rank competitive analysis, category-driven discoverability, and how category choice affects featuring eligibility. Use when the user mentions "which category", "App Store category", "primary category", "secondary category", "change my category", "Health & Fitness vs Lifestyle", "Productivity vs Utilities", "rank higher in a smaller category", "category chart", "subcategory", "Play Store category", or "should I switch categories". For full ASO health beyond category, see aso-audit. For competitor analysis within the chosen category, see competitor-analysis. For chart movements within categories, see market-movers.

metadata.version

1.0.0

CATEGORY POSITIONING — <App Name>

CURRENT:
  Primary: <X>
  Secondary: <Y>
  Current rank in primary: #<N>

CANDIDATES EVALUATED:

Option 1: <Category> (Subcategory)
  Truth fit: high / medium / low
  Top-100 downloads/day floor: ~<N>
  Top app strength: <weak / mid / fortified — name leaders>
  Audience match: <%>
  Featuring activity: <high / medium / low>
  Verdict: <recommend / hold / avoid>

Option 2: <Category>
  ...

RECOMMENDATION:
  Primary: <X> — Reason: <why>
  Secondary: <Y> — Reason: <why>

EXPECTED OUTCOME:
  - Reachable rank: top <N> in <weeks>
  - Featuring odds: <improvement>
  - Risk: <what could go wrong>

SWITCH PLAN (if changing):
  Timing: <ship with v X.Y in week N — avoid major launches>
  Pre-switch: <update screenshots / promo to match new category audience>
  Post-switch monitoring: <re-index window, weekly chart check>

© appeeky, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/category-positioning of appeeky/aso-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 3919d7c