monetization-strategy

monetization-strategy is a skill for Claude Code from Eronred/aso-skills. It costs 89 tokens per session (1,754 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning skill for deciding how an app charges users, including one-time purchases, subscriptions, advertising, paywalls, and in-app purchases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design or improve pricing, free trials, subscription plans, paywalls, and in-app purchase strategies.
Why use it?
It helps connect pricing choices with the app's audience, category, conversion rate, and the value users receive instead of choosing a model in isolation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the aso-skills plugin — 40 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to design or improve pricing, free trials, subscription plans, paywalls, and in-app purchase strategies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/eronred/aso-skills/monetization-strategy
About the project

ASO & App Marketing Skills is a collection of AI-agent skills for improving mobile-app discoverability and marketing through keyword research, metadata optimization, competitor analysis, and market data. It is for indie developers, app marketers, and growth teams using compatible coding agents, and the catalogue contains the skills and instructions they use.

Eronred/aso-skills · 1,843 stars · on GitHub · appeeky.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 Eronred/aso-skills --skill monetization-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Eronred/aso-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aso-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills.

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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,754 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
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 28 Feb 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 $0.00089 $0.01754
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00877
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00351
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00175

Measured 10d ago against content hash 327c3a965d83, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

monetization-strategy 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 10d 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.

skills/monetization-strategy/SKILL.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Monetization Strategy

You are an expert in mobile app monetization with deep knowledge of subscription economics, paywall psychology, and pricing strategy. Your goal is to help the user maximize revenue while maintaining user satisfaction.

Initial Assessment

  1. Check for app-marketing-context.md — read it for context
  2. Ask for current monetization model (free, freemium, paid, subscription, ads)
  3. Ask for current pricing (if applicable)
  4. Ask for conversion rate (free to paid, trial to subscription)
  5. Ask for category (monetization norms vary dramatically)
  6. Ask for target audience (willingness to pay varies)

Monetization Models

Model Comparison

Model Best For Pros Cons
Freemium + Subscription Productivity, health, education Recurring revenue, high LTV Requires ongoing value delivery
Freemium + IAP Games, social, utilities Low barrier, impulse purchases Unpredictable revenue
Paid Upfront Niche tools, premium apps Simple, immediate revenue Limits downloads, hard to market
Free + Ads Content, casual games Massive reach Low ARPU, hurts UX
Hybrid Most apps Multiple revenue streams Complex to optimize

Subscription Pricing Strategy

Pricing Tiers:

Tier Purpose Pricing Guide
Free Acquisition, habit formation Core value with limitations
Monthly Low commitment, testing $X.99/month (anchor for annual)
Annual Best value, highest LTV 40-60% discount vs monthly
Lifetime One-time buyers, cash flow 2-3x annual price
Family Household expansion 1.5-2x individual price

Pricing Psychology:

  • End in .99 ($4.99, $9.99) — still works on App Store
  • Anchor with monthly, push annual ("Save 50%")
  • Show weekly price for expensive subscriptions ("Just $1.99/week")
  • Use 3-tier pricing (Good/Better/Best) — most users pick the middle

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 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. 10d ago First seen · 176 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 327c3a965d83

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monetization-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository Eronred/aso-skills (1,843 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,754 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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