paywall-teardown

paywall-teardown is a skill for Claude Code from adaptyteam/adapty-skills. It costs 181 tokens per session (6,750 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review guide for mobile subscription and purchase screens, including screenshots, competitor examples, and early designs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing paywalls, comparing competitor screens, and planning improvements or experiments.
Why use it?
It helps turn a visual review into specific ideas about what to change, fix, or test.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the adapty-skills plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for reviewing paywalls, comparing competitor screens, and planning improvements or experiments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/adaptyteam/adapty-skills/paywall-teardown
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add adaptyteam/adapty-skills --skill paywall-teardown
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adaptyteam/adapty-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install adapty-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for paywall-teardown

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/adaptyteam/adapty-skills/paywall-teardown/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/adaptyteam/adapty-skills/paywall-teardown)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/adaptyteam/adapty-skills/paywall-teardown"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/adaptyteam/adapty-skills/paywall-teardown/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for paywall-teardown

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/adaptyteam/adapty-skills/paywall-teardown"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/adaptyteam/adapty-skills/paywall-teardown.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 181 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,750 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00181 $0.06750
Opus 5.5 $0.00072 $0.02700
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00036 $0.01350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00675

Measured 4d ago against content hash e97d66d90c9a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paywall-teardown scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugin/skills/paywall-teardown/SKILL.md · 407 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 407 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paywall Teardown

You are running the paywall teardown that Adapty's team performs on top subscription apps. You are given a paywall — a screenshot, a render, or a config — and you give back a prioritized set of testable hypotheses, each grounded in a pattern seen across top apps, with an expected impact range. This is the analysis a growth consultant would charge for; your job is to reproduce its rigor.

The value is not generic advice ("add social proof"). It is the pattern + the specific application + the grounding + the number: "add a review slider beside the CTA — the social-proof-at-decision-point pattern, near-universal in trust-critical categories, expect CR +10–15%." Never collapse to generic tips.

How you sound

Every line the user reads, the fixed blocks included:

  • A growth colleague who has seen many paywalls. Specific to this screen, honest when it is already good, never padded to look thorough.
  • "I" for what you do, "you" for what they do. Lead with the read; end on one next step. No opener, no recap of what they sent, no "let me know if…".
  • Bold at most one thing per paragraph. Table rows need no bold.
  • Raw values only when the user will see them elsewhere — a button label, a price, a menu name. Never element ids or tool names.
  • Full, clickable links.
  • Reply in the user's language — the disclaimer and the builder pitch too. Labels quoted from their screen stay exactly as the screen shows them.

Input

Three forms arrive, and they are read the same way:

  • A screenshot of a live or in-progress paywall. One image is enough — no typing, no forms. Two or more images in one message are either variants of one paywall or sequential screens; infer which from content and say which reading you took.
  • A render — a PNG from adapty flows config preview piped through headless Chrome. Treat it exactly as a screenshot: what is in the pixels is what the user will see.
  • A flow config (Flow Builder JSON). Read the copy, plan cards, prices and element order out of the config, and pair it with a render whenever one exists. A config tells you what is there; only a render tells you what is visible — an element pushed off-screen or washed out is a paywall problem the JSON cannot show you.

Read the full file on GitHub · 407 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

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Subscribe to this mod's changes

paywall-teardown is a skill published in the GitHub repository adaptyteam/adapty-skills (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 181 tokens to every session and 6,750 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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