Agent skill

Market Pulse

by appeeky in appeeky/aso-skills

When the user wants a comprehensive App Store market overview, daily/weekly market briefing, or combined view of chart movements, trending keywords, featured apps, and new releases.

MITAuto-check passedMarketing & SEO

Install Market Pulse

skills CLI
$ npx skills add appeeky/aso-skills --skill market-pulse -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install appeeky/aso-skills market-pulse --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/appeeky/aso-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/market-pulse .claude/skills/market-pulse && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
market-pulse
GitHub stars
2.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
510 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
39
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

When the user wants a comprehensive App Store market overview, daily/weekly market briefing, or combined view of chart movements, trending keywords, featured apps, and new releases.

  • Works in 6 steps: Headlines → Chart Dynamics → Trending Keywords → …
  • Wants a comprehensive App Store market overview
  • SKILL.md covers Initial Assessment, Data Collection, Market Briefing Framework and Output Formats, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Market Pulse is an agent skill from appeeky/aso-skills. When the user wants a comprehensive App Store market overview, daily/weekly market briefing, or combined view of chart movements, trending keywords, featured apps, and new releases. Also use when the user mentions "market overview", "what's happening on the App Store", "market briefing", "weekly report", "market trends", or "state of the market". For chart-specific rank changes only, see market-movers. For keyword trends only, see keyword-research.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Marketing & SEO, covering App store release and Keyword research. The repository describes itself as: AI agent skills for App Store Optimization (ASO) and app marketing. Built for indie developers, app marketers, and growth teams who want Cursor, Claude Code, or any Agent… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Wants a comprehensive App Store market overview
  • Daily/weekly market briefing
  • Combined view of chart movements
  • Trending keywords

Example prompts

  • “market overview”
  • “s happening on the App Store”
  • “market briefing”
  • “/market-pulse”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Headlines
  2. Chart Dynamics
  3. Trending Keywords
  4. Apple Featuring
  5. New Launches & Breakouts
  6. Category Health Check

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 (its code samples are markdown).

    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

Market Pulse loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 116 tokens; SKILL.md has 510 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~116
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

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

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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). 510 words, ~1,353 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/market-pulse/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
market-pulse
description
When the user wants a comprehensive App Store market overview, daily/weekly market briefing, or combined view of chart movements, trending keywords, featured apps, and new releases. Also use when the user mentions "market overview", "what's happening on the App Store", "market briefing", "weekly report", "market trends", or "state of the market". For chart-specific rank changes only, see market-movers. For keyword trends only, see keyword-research.
metadata.version
1.0.0

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:

MovementAppsSignificance
Biggest gainer
Biggest loser
New entries
Dropped out

If user has an app — their position:

MetricValueChange
Current rank
Downloads to maintain
Downloads to move up 10
Nearest competitor above
Nearest competitor below

Keywords showing significant search volume growth:

KeywordGrowthVolumeDifficultyRelevance
High/Med/Low

Identify:

  • Keywords relevant to the user's category
  • Seasonal or event-driven trends (holidays, news events)
  • Emerging categories or use cases
  • Keywords where user could rank with effort
4. Apple Featuring
Featured SpotAppCategoryWhy It Matters
App of the Day
Game of the Day
Collection: [name]

Featuring patterns to note:

  • Is Apple focusing on a specific theme this week?
  • Are competitors being featured?
  • Does the user's app fit any current featuring theme?
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5. New Launches & Breakouts

New releases in user's category:

AppDeveloperDays Since LaunchCurrent RankRating

New #1 apps:

AppCategoryPrevious RankWhat Happened
6. Category Health Check

For the user's category:

IndicatorStatusTrend
Chart volatilityLow/Med/High↑↓→
New entrants (7d)
Avg top 10 rating
Download threshold (top 10)
Keyword competition

Output Formats

Quick Briefing (default)
markdown
## App Store Pulse — [Date]

### 🔥 Headlines
- ...

### 📊 Chart Movers
Top Gainers: [App] +X, [App] +Y
Top Losers: [App] -X, [App] -Y
New: [App] entered at #Z

### 📈 Trending
Keywords rising: "keyword1" (+X%), "keyword2" (+Y%)

### ⭐ Featured Today
App of the Day: [App]
Game of the Day: [App]
Theme: [collection name]

### 💡 What This Means for You
- [1 actionable takeaway]
- [1 opportunity to watch]
- [1 threat to monitor]
Detailed Weekly Report

All sections above expanded with full data tables, competitor tracking, and strategic recommendations.

Competitive Focus

Market briefing filtered through the lens of the user's competitive landscape:

  • How are competitors moving in the charts?
  • Are competitors' keywords trending?
  • Is any competitor being featured?
  • New competitive threats from launches?

Recurring Use

Suggest the user run this skill weekly for trend tracking:

  • Compare this week's movers with last week's
  • Track which trending keywords sustained growth
  • Monitor if featuring patterns predict future trends
  • market-movers — Deep dive into specific chart rank changes
  • keyword-research — Explore trending keywords further
  • competitor-analysis — Analyze specific competitors spotted in movers
  • app-store-featured — Strategy for getting featured based on current patterns
  • app-launch — Time launches based on market dynamics
  • ua-campaign — Adjust spend based on category benchmarks

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/market-pulse of appeeky/aso-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 3919d7c

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Questions about Market Pulse

What does Market Pulse do?

When the user wants a comprehensive App Store market overview, daily/weekly market briefing, or combined view of chart movements, trending keywords, featured apps, and new releases. Market Pulse is an agent skill from appeeky/aso-skills. When the user wants a comprehensive App Store market overview, daily/weekly market briefing, or combined view of chart movements, trending keywords, featured apps, and new releases.

When should I use Market Pulse?

Market Pulse fits situations like: wants a comprehensive App Store market overview; daily/weekly market briefing; combined view of chart movements; trending keywords.

How do I install Market Pulse in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add appeeky/aso-skills --skill market-pulse -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/market-pulse in appeeky/aso-skills) into .claude/skills/market-pulse in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Market Pulse in Codex?

Run `npx skills add appeeky/aso-skills --skill market-pulse -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/market-pulse in appeeky/aso-skills) into .agents/skills/market-pulse in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Market Pulse in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add appeeky/aso-skills --skill market-pulse -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/market-pulse, .gemini/skills/market-pulse, .github/skills/market-pulse and .opencode/skills/market-pulse in your project.

What does Market Pulse need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Market Pulse is instructions for the agent only.

Does Market Pulse access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Market Pulse safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Market Pulse use?

Market Pulse is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Market Pulse use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Market Pulse?

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Who maintains Market Pulse?

appeeky (a GitHub organization) maintains it in appeeky/aso-skills, which has 2,163 GitHub stars. The repository holds 39 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

Source: appeeky/aso-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.