Growth skills for indie Apple developers — user acquisition, analytics interpretation, press/media outreach, community building, and indie business operations.

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Growth

skills CLI
$ npx skills add rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills --skill growth -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills growth --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/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/growth .claude/skills/growth && 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
growth
GitHub stars
787
Token cost
~896 tokens
SKILL.md length
389 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
41
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Growth skills for indie Apple developers — user acquisition, analytics interpretation, press/media outreach, community building, and indie business operations.

  • Works in 4 steps: Identify what growth stage the user is at → Read the relevant sub-skill's SKILL.md… → Ask clarifying questions about the… → …
  • User asks about growing their app
  • SKILL.md covers When This Skill Activates, Available Skills and How to Use
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Growth is an agent skill from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills. Growth skills for indie Apple developers — user acquisition, analytics interpretation, press/media outreach, community building, and indie business operations. Also covers the stage-by-stage store-growth audit and the post-launch store-signals loop. Use when user asks about growing their app, auditing growth levers, understanding metrics, getting press coverage, or running an indie dev business.

Its SKILL.md is about 900 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 Business, Finance & HR, covering Operations and SOPs. The repository describes itself as: Claude Code skills for Apple platform development (iOS, macOS, iPadOS) — product validation, code generation, App Store optimization, and more. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • User asks about growing their app
  • Auditing growth levers
  • Understanding metrics
  • Getting press coverage

Example prompts

  • “/growth”

Requirements

  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Glob, Grep, AskUserQuestion, WebSearch

Workflow steps

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

  1. Identify what growth stage the user is at
  2. Read the relevant sub-skill's SKILL.md for detailed workflow
  3. Ask clarifying questions about the user's app, audience, and current metrics
  4. Provide actionable guidance tailored to their specific situation

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9ffb831. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Glob
    • Grep
    • AskUserQuestion
    • WebSearch

    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

Growth loads about 896 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 101 tokens; SKILL.md has 389 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~101
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~896

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 rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills at commit 9ffb831, republished under its MIT licence (© rshankras). 389 words, ~896 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/growth/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
growth
description
Growth skills for indie Apple developers — user acquisition, analytics interpretation, press/media outreach, community building, and indie business operations. Also covers the stage-by-stage store-growth audit and the post-launch store-signals loop. Use when user asks about growing their app, auditing growth levers, understanding metrics, getting press coverage, or running an indie dev business.
allowed-tools
Read, Glob, Grep, AskUserQuestion, WebSearch
last_verified
2026-07-16
review_by
2027-06-22

Growth Skills

Growth skills for indie Apple developers — from analytics interpretation to press outreach to community building. Covers the non-code aspects of building a sustainable app business.

When This Skill Activates

Use this skill when the user:

  • Asks about growing their app or user acquisition
  • Wants to understand app metrics or analytics
  • Asks about press/media outreach or getting reviews
  • Wants to build a community around their app
  • Asks about indie business operations (LLC, taxes, hiring)
  • Mentions growth strategy, marketing, or user engagement
  • Wants data-driven guidance on what to improve next

Available Skills

store-growth-audit/

Stage-by-stage audit of an app's App Store growth machinery against a 54-item P0–P9 playbook — every item scored from an ASC read, a codebase check, or an explicit question, then routed to the skill that fixes it. Read-only; works for live apps (audit) and pre-launch apps (growth plan).

store-signals/

Close the post-launch loop — turn a live app's App Store signals (reviews, analytics, sales, crashes, listing conversion) into a metric-tagged backlog, and verify whether last cycle's changes moved the metric they promised to move.

analytics-interpretation/

Interpret app metrics and make data-driven decisions. Covers DAU/MAU, retention curves, LTV/ARPU, App Store Connect analytics, funnel analysis (AARRR), cohort analysis, and decision trees for what to fix based on which metric is underperforming.

press-media/

Get press coverage and media attention for your app. Covers press kit preparation, finding relevant journalists/bloggers/YouTubers, pitch timing and embargo strategy, indie developer story angles, and email templates for outreach.

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community-building/

Build and engage a user community around your app. Covers platform selection (Twitter/X, Mastodon, Reddit, Discord), building in public strategy, content calendars for solo developers, and converting community members into advocates.

indie-business/

Business fundamentals for indie app developers. Covers business entity setup (LLC, S-Corp), Apple Small Business Program, tax basics for app revenue, revenue tracking, when to hire, and financial planning for indie sustainability.

How to Use

  1. Identify what growth stage the user is at:
    • Pre-launch: store-growth-audit (seed the growth plan), press-media (prepare press kit), community-building (build anticipation)
    • Just launched: analytics-interpretation (baseline metrics), press-media (launch outreach)
    • Growing: store-signals (monthly loop), analytics-interpretation (optimize funnel), community-building (scale engagement)
    • Established: store-growth-audit (quarterly re-audit), indie-business (formalize operations), analytics-interpretation (advanced cohorts)
  2. Read the relevant sub-skill's SKILL.md for detailed workflow
  3. Ask clarifying questions about the user's app, audience, and current metrics
  4. Provide actionable guidance tailored to their specific situation

© rshankras, 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/growth of rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9ffb831

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Questions about Growth

What does Growth do?

Growth skills for indie Apple developers — user acquisition, analytics interpretation, press/media outreach, community building, and indie business operations. Growth is an agent skill from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills. Growth skills for indie Apple developers — user acquisition, analytics interpretation, press/media outreach, community building, and indie business operations.

When should I use Growth?

Growth fits situations like: user asks about growing their app; auditing growth levers; understanding metrics; getting press coverage.

How do I install Growth in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Growth in Codex?

Run `npx skills add rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills --skill growth -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/growth in rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills) into .agents/skills/growth in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Growth 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 rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills --skill growth -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/growth, .gemini/skills/growth, .github/skills/growth and .opencode/skills/growth in your project.

What does Growth need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Growth is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Glob, Grep, AskUserQuestion, WebSearch.

Does Growth 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 Growth 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 Growth use?

Growth 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 Growth use?

About 896 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.6k 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 Growth?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Growth: Cc Sdd New Agent (gotalab/cc-sdd, 3.7k stars), DBS Business Toolkit Entry (dontbesilent2025/dbskill, 11k stars), Agent Sop Author (strands-agents/agent-sop, 1.2k stars) and Diffusion Narrative Denouncing (canwhite/Krebs, 1k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Growth?

rshankras (a GitHub user) maintains it in rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills, which has 787 GitHub stars. The repository holds 41 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on July 24, 2026.

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