paywall-upgrade-cro

paywall-upgrade-cro is a skill for Claude Code from bromso/metapowers. It costs 77 tokens per session (733 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A paywall and upgrade conversion guide for products that limit free use. It covers when to show upgrade prompts, how to explain limits, and how to arrange the pricing page.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review hard and soft paywalls, upgrade messages, triggers, and pricing-page layouts for a free or freemium product.
Why use it?
It helps address the problem of free users reaching a limit without understanding why they should pay. It focuses on improving the upgrade experience, not choosing prices or plan structure.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the marketing plugin — 29 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review hard and soft paywalls, upgrade messages, triggers, and pricing-page layouts for a free or freemium product.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bromso/metapowers/paywall-upgrade-cro
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 bromso/metapowers --skill paywall-upgrade-cro
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bromso/metapowers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install marketing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 733 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 $0.00077 $0.00733
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00293
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00073

Measured 3d ago against content hash 6b0b98f2029e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paywall-upgrade-cro 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 3d 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.

plugins/marketing/skills/paywall-upgrade-cro/SKILL.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paywall & Upgrade CRO

Optimize the paywall and upgrade experience for "$ARGUMENTS". Design upgrade triggers, pricing page optimization, and conversion flows.

Arguments. $ARGUMENTS may contain the project name and optional flags. Take the first token as <project> and treat --skip-checks as a flag; never include flags in file paths. All paths below use <project>. If --skip-checks is present, skip the prerequisite check and, before writing any artifact, append one line to .metapowers/marketing/<project>/skip-log.md: - <ISO timestamp> — <skill name> skipped prerequisite check for <artifact file> — reason: <reason or "none given">.

Prerequisites

Read .metapowers/marketing/<project>/00-strategy.md. If this file does not exist, tell the user:

Phase 0 (Strategy) has not been completed for "". Run /marketing:customer-research <project> first, or use --skip-checks to bypass.

Process

  1. Read context:

    • Read .metapowers/marketing/<project>/00-strategy.md for pricing strategy
    • Read .metapowers/marketing/<project>/04-engage.md if it exists
  2. Analyze current paywall (if applicable):

    • When and where does the user hit the paywall?
    • What's the messaging at the paywall moment?
    • Hard paywall vs. soft paywall vs. metered approach
    • How does it make the user feel? (frustrated vs. motivated)
  3. Optimize upgrade triggers:

    • Usage-based triggers: hitting limits naturally during valuable workflows
    • Feature-based triggers: showing premium features with upgrade prompt
    • Timing-based triggers: trial ending, usage milestone
    • Social triggers: team features, collaboration needs
  4. Pricing page optimization:

    • Tier presentation: recommended tier highlighting
    • Feature comparison clarity
    • Social proof on pricing page
    • FAQ and objection handling
    • Annual vs. monthly toggle design
  5. Write the artifact — append to .metapowers/marketing/<project>/04-engage.md under a ## Paywall & Upgrade CRO section. Create the file with a # Engage — <project> heading if it does not exist; if a ## Paywall & Upgrade CRO section already exists, replace only that section. The section contains:

    • Current Paywall Assessment — strengths and friction
    • Upgrade Trigger Design — when and where to prompt
    • Pricing Page Recommendations — layout, copy, social proof
    • A/B Test Ideas — highest-impact tests
    • Expected Impact — estimated conversion lift

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 lines

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.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 57 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 6b0b98f2029e

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paywall-upgrade-cro is a skill published in the GitHub repository bromso/metapowers (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 733 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-10-21.