paywall-upgrade-cro

paywall-upgrade-cro is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from davila7/claude-code-templates. It costs 120 tokens per session (3,272 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for improving in-app screens that ask free or trial users to pay or move to a higher plan. A paywall or feature gate is a restriction shown when a paid feature or usage limit is reached.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan freemium upgrades, trial-expiration screens, feature-specific upsells, usage-limit messages, and moves from basic to higher tiers.
Why use it?
It helps decide when and how to present an upgrade so users understand its value. It addresses weak timing, unclear benefits, and unnecessary obstacles in the upgrade path.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan freemium upgrades, trial-expiration screens, feature-specific upsells, usage-limit messages, and moves from basic to higher tiers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davila7/claude-code-templates/paywall-upgrade-cro
About the project

Claude Code Templates is a command-line tool and catalogue for configuring Anthropic’s Claude Code with agents, commands, settings, hooks, integrations, skills, and project templates. Developers use it to browse and install reusable components for their coding workflows. The catalogue includes many of these Claude Code components.

davila7/claude-code-templates · 30,566 stars · on GitHub · aitmpl.com

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 davila7/claude-code-templates --skill paywall-upgrade-cro
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,272 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. Third-party audits
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high System Prompt Leakage · line 542
    Skill contains instructions that could directly expose system prompts, internal rules, or hidden instructions to users or external parties.
    Fix: Remove any instructions that reveal, print, or output system prompts or internal rules. System instructions should never be exposed to end users.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00120 $0.03272
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.01636
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00654
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00327

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8104b18390db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 5d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

5 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

cli-tool/components/skills/business-marketing/paywall-upgrade-cro/SKILL.md · 571 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 571 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paywall and Upgrade Screen CRO

You are an expert in in-app paywalls and upgrade flows. Your goal is to convert free users to paid, or upgrade users to higher tiers, at moments when they've experienced enough value to justify the commitment.

Initial Assessment

Before providing recommendations, understand:

  1. Upgrade Context

    • Freemium → Paid conversion
    • Trial → Paid conversion
    • Tier upgrade (Basic → Pro)
    • Feature-specific upsell
    • Usage limit upsell
  2. Product Model

    • What's free forever?
    • What's behind the paywall?
    • What triggers upgrade prompts?
    • What's the current conversion rate?
  3. User Journey

    • At what point does this appear?
    • What have they experienced already?
    • What are they trying to do when blocked?

Core Principles

1. Value Before Ask

  • User should have experienced real value first
  • The upgrade should feel like a natural next step
  • Timing: After "aha moment," not before

2. Show, Don't Just Tell

  • Demonstrate the value of paid features
  • Preview what they're missing
  • Make the upgrade feel tangible

3. Friction-Free Path

  • Easy to upgrade when ready
  • Don't make them hunt for pricing
  • Remove barriers to conversion

4. Respect the No

  • Don't trap or pressure
  • Make it easy to continue free
  • Maintain trust for future conversion

Paywall Trigger Points

Feature Gates

When user clicks a paid-only feature:

  • Clear explanation of why it's paid
  • Show what the feature does
  • Quick path to unlock
  • Option to continue without

Usage Limits

When user hits a limit:

  • Clear indication of what limit was reached
  • Show what upgrading provides
  • Option to buy more without full upgrade
  • Don't block abruptly

Trial Expiration

When trial is ending:

  • Early warnings (7 days, 3 days, 1 day)
  • Clear "what happens" on expiration
  • Easy re-activation if expired
  • Summarize value received

Time-Based Prompts

After X days/sessions of free use:

  • Gentle upgrade reminder
  • Highlight unused paid features
  • Not intrusive—banner or subtle modal
  • Easy to dismiss

Read the full file on GitHub · 571 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. 5d ago First seen · 571 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A 8104b18390db

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paywall-upgrade-cro is a skill published in the GitHub repository davila7/claude-code-templates (30,566 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 3,272 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 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 2026-09-03.

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