build-monetized-app

build-monetized-app is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from elizaOS/eliza. It costs 126 tokens per session (3,014 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for building an Eliza Cloud app that charges for chat or inference requests and credits the markup to its owner. Eliza Cloud is the hosting and API service used to register, authenticate, deploy, and bill the app.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating a paid chat app, agent app, or tool backed by MCP that calls Eliza Cloud services on behalf of users.
Why use it?
It removes the need to design separate registration, authentication, payment, deployment, and payout flows. It also defines the supported request path for forwarding users' chat or inference calls.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it when creating a paid chat app, agent app, or tool backed by MCP that calls Eliza Cloud services on behalf of users.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elizaos/eliza/build-monetized-app
About the project

elizaOS is an open-source TypeScript framework and product stack for building and running autonomous AI agents. Developers use its runtime, application, command-line tool, cloud services, native bridges, and plugins to create agent-based software. The catalogue entries provide skills, commands, instructions, and rules for working with this monorepo and its agent ecosystem.

elizaOS/eliza · 19,313 stars · on GitHub · elizaresearch.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add elizaOS/eliza --skill build-monetized-app
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elizaOS/eliza

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 126 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,014 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 fail 7 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00126 $0.03014
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01507
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00603
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00301

Measured 12d ago against content hash 25bc57645d29, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-monetized-app 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 12d 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.

packages/skills/skills/build-monetized-app/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build a monetized app on Eliza Cloud

Use this skill when you need to build an app that takes a markup on every chat or inference call and credits the earnings back to your owner. Eliza Cloud already supports app registration, per-app API keys, container deploys, the appId-based auth and redirect flow, app-scoped chat endpoints, optional affiliate headers, exact app charge requests, x402 payment requests, payout redemptions, and creator-monetization plumbing — you do not need to invent any of these.

Read references/sdk-flow.md for the 6-step build flow with a self-contained code example. External references (all public):

  • Implementation contract: use the Cloud SDK registration, same-origin OAuth proxy, /api/v1/messages forwarding, health check, and container-deploy flow described below. Do not substitute a legacy message route or a client-side owner key.
  • SDK reference: @elizaos/cloud-sdk README — typed methods + helpers + auth.
  • Human-readable recipe: packages/docs/cloud/monetized-apps.mdx — same loop, narrative form, with the schema fields explained.

Skill Pairing

Always pair this skill with eliza-cloud. This skill owns the new-app build-and-monetize flow; eliza-cloud owns the current Cloud backend surface, existing-app operations, app charge requests, x402 requests, affiliate earnings, payout redemptions, media/promotion, and parent-agent Cloud command details. Spawned coding agents should load or request both skills for Cloud app builds.

The survival-economics loop

An Eliza-style agent running in an Eliza Cloud container costs ~$0.67/day at the default tier (256 MB CPU + 512 MB RAM). When the org's credit balance and the owner's redeemable earnings both hit zero, the container is stopped after a 48-hour grace window. The container-billing cron pulls earnings before credits, so an app that earns more than its hosting costs keeps the agent alive indefinitely. See references/survival-economics.md for the exact accounting (redeemable_earnings_ledger, credit_transactions, the cron at packages/cloud/api/cron/container-billing/route.ts).

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 169 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A 25bc57645d29

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build-monetized-app is a skill published in the GitHub repository elizaOS/eliza (19,313 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 3,014 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 2026-08-30.

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