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app-store-featured

When the user wants to get featured on the App Store or understand the editorial process. Also use when the user mentions "get featured", "App Store editorial", "App of the Day", "Today tab", "Apple featuring", or "how to get Apple to feature my app". For launch strategy, see app-launch. For ASO optimization, see aso-audit.

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tessl review fix ./skills/app-store-featured/SKILL.md
SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

63%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-organized, actionable strategy skill whose main weaknesses are table/checklist redundancy inflating length and a complete absence of progressive disclosure (no reference files, one absent referenced file). The workflow and concrete templates are solid for an advisory skill.

Suggestions

Collapse the 'What Apple Looks For' table into the checklists (or vice versa) to remove the duplicated design/tech/rating/accessibility/privacy content.

Move the pitch template and In-App Events reference tables into separate reference files in ./references/ and link to them, enabling progressive disclosure.

Either create the referenced `app-marketing-context.md` or remove the instruction to read it, so the skill is not pointing at a missing file.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is dense with tables and checklists rather than padded with basic-concept explanations, but the 'What Apple Looks For' table substantially duplicates the later Design/Apple Tech/Quality Signals checklist sections, so it could be tightened — matching 'mostly efficient but some unnecessary content'.

3 / 5

Actionability

For a strategy skill it is highly actionable: a copy-paste pitch email template, the real self-nomination form URL, a numbered pitch structure, specific timing windows, and a concrete readiness-score output format — minor gaps keep it just below fully copy-paste-ready at 5.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

There is a clear sequence — Initial Assessment (numbered 1-5) → optimization checklists → pitch with template and timing → readiness output format — with no validation cap applying since this is advisory, non-destructive work; minor checkpoint gaps keep it at 4 rather than 5.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist and the referenced `app-marketing-context.md` is absent, so all content is inlined in one ~200-line file with good section headers but no one-level-deep detail references — matching 'some structure but content that should be separate is inline'.

3 / 5

Total

14

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20

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Description

76%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description with excellent trigger terms and explicit cross-skill disambiguation, weakened only by a lack of concrete capability statements that would tell Claude what the skill actually does. The 'what' is implied through user goals rather than skill actions.

Suggestions

Lead with the skill's concrete actions, e.g. 'Assesses App Store featuring readiness, drafts editorial pitches, and plans in-App Events strategy.'

Add a short capability clause before the trigger list so the 'what' is as explicit as the 'when'.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The description names the domain ("get featured on the App Store or understand the editorial process") but frames it as the user's goal rather than the skill's concrete actions, with no enumerated capabilities — matching the 'names domain but actions minimal/generic' anchor and falling below the '1-2 concrete actions' anchor at 3.

2 / 5

Completeness

The 'when' is explicit and thorough with concrete trigger phrases, and a goal-based 'what' is present, but the 'what' does not state the skill's concrete actions (e.g. assess readiness, draft a pitch), so it does not reach the 'clearly answers both' anchor at 5.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

It enumerates natural phrases users would actually say — "get featured", "App Store editorial", "App of the Day", "Today tab", "Apple featuring", and the full question "how to get Apple to feature my app" — giving comprehensive synonym-level coverage matching the top anchor.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

It occupies a clear niche (App Store editorial featuring) and explicitly disambiguates adjacent skills ("For launch strategy, see app-launch. For ASO optimization, see aso-audit"), minimizing conflict risk per the top anchor.

5 / 5

Total

16

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20

Passed

Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

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