ASO Skills: ASO in Your AI Workflow
Key Points
- Embeds ASO into AI agent workflows
- End-to-end flow: audit → research → optimize
- Screenshot text and localized keywords are ranking levers
Summary
Expo made shipping native apps fast; the new bottleneck is discovery. 65–70% of app installs still come from App Store search, so App Store Optimization (ASO) is essential. ASO Skills is an open-source library of AI agent skills that embeds ASO expertise into your editor/agent workflow to run audits, research keywords, and generate optimized metadata backed by real App Store data.
Key Points
- ASO Skills packages 20+ agent skills into a guided workflow (aso-audit → keyword-research → metadata-optimization) so you can run an end-to-end ASO process inside your AI assistant.
- Practical ranking levers: title (30 chars), subtitle (30 chars, iOS), keyword field (100 chars, iOS), screenshot text (indexed by Apple's semantic search), ratings & reviews (prompt after milestones), and per-locale localization.
- Treat ASO as ongoing: run monthly audits and iterate keywords/metadata as algorithms and competitors change.
- Workflow recommendation for engineers:
- Start: run aso-audit to surface weak spots and priority fixes.
- Research: run keyword-research to identify high-opportunity, low-competition keywords per locale.
- Ship: use metadata-optimization to generate title/subtitle/keyword field and update your store listing alongside your Expo release pipeline.
- Integration tip: use ASO Skills directly in Agent Skills-compatible tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex) to avoid dashboards, spreadsheets, and context switching.
Quick action items
- Add ASO checks to your release checklist and schedule monthly audits.
- Localize title/keyword fields and screenshot captions for priority markets.
- Prompt reviews after meaningful user success events, not on first launch.
Repo: github.com/Eronred/aso-skills