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Chrome Web Store Featured Badge Audit

A Claude Code plugin that audits your Chrome extension against Google's published criteria for the Featured badge and Established Publisher badge, then produces a prioritized fix plan to qualify.

The Featured badge is a human review by the Chrome Web Store team — there's no queue you can pay or fast-track your way through. The only lever is genuinely meeting the published bar. This plugin tells you exactly where you stand and what to fix first, before you nominate.

Install

In Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add divyamrastogi/cws-featured-badge-skill
/plugin install cws-featured-badge@divyamrastogi-skills

Then open Claude Code in your extension's repo and ask: "Is my extension ready for the Featured badge?"

What it checks

The audit gathers evidence from your codebase (manifest, permissions, privacy behavior, onboarding, store assets) and your live listing, covering ~35 items across seven areas:

  • Eligibility gates — the hard requirements Google checks before anything else
  • Policy & security — program-policy compliance, remote code, data handling
  • Technical best practices — Manifest V3, bfcache, permission minimization
  • Privacy — privacy policy, disclosures, least-privilege data access
  • UX quality — onboarding, polish, and the judgment calls a human reviewer makes
  • Store listing quality — description, screenshots, promo assets
  • Publisher prerequisites — verified publisher status and account standing

The output is a scorecard with evidence per item, blockers separated from high-impact improvements, the dashboard items you must verify manually, and a nomination-readiness verdict.

Badges can't be bought. The plugin never suggests gaming tactics — incentivized reviews and keyword stuffing violate program policies and disqualify extensions. It only helps you genuinely meet the bar.

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