Research brief

Skill getappniche/aso-skills/skills/research-brief

Create a compact shared research brief — the app, its market, competitors, goals, and constraints — that other ASO and market-research skills reference instead of re-asking. Use at the start of a research engagement or when context is scattered across a long conversation.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add getappniche/aso-skills --skill research-brief

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SKILL.md

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Research Brief

One page that makes every subsequent analysis sharper and cheaper. Build it once, reference it everywhere, update it when facts change.

When to trigger

The user starts a multi-step research effort (discovery → keywords → metadata).
Another skill would otherwise re-ask for basics already mentioned.
The user says some form of "let me give you context about my app".

Workflow

Gather what exists. From conversation history first; then, if the GetAppNiche MCP is connected and the user's app is live, one get_app_detail call fills the factual half (category, price model, rating, scale) — cheaper and more reliable than asking the user to type it.
Ask only for what's missing and material — batch the questions in one message. Typical gaps: target user, business goal (revenue vs. installs vs. validation), markets/languages, budget realities (solo dev vs. funded team), hard constraints.
Write the brief in the fixed format below, marking every unverified statement with (assumption).
Keep it alive. When later research contradicts the brief (a competitor turns out bigger, a keyword unviable), update the brief and say what changed.

Brief format

## Research Brief: <app / working title>
- Product: what it does, for whom, in one sentence
- Stage: idea / pre-launch / live (scale if live)
- Store(s) & markets: apple/google · countries · languages
- Business goal: the one metric that matters this quarter
- Monetization: model + price points
- Competitors: 3–5 named, one clause each on why they're in the set
- Edge: the differentiator we believe in (assumption until validated)
- Constraints: team, budget, timeline, platform limits
- Open questions: what research still needs to answer

Guardrails

One page maximum — a brief nobody rereads is worthless.
Never silently invent facts to fill a field; (assumption) labels are the integrity mechanism other skills rely on.
End by suggesting the natural next skill (discovery for idea-stage, review-mining for live apps with rating trouble, keyword-research before a metadata rewrite).

What ships with it

Read from the repository

Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.