paywall-upgrade-cro

paywall-upgrade-cro is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills. It costs 120 tokens per session (3,272 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of paywall-upgrade-cro, MIT.

A set of guidelines for designing or improving in-app paywalls, upgrade screens, upsell messages, and feature limits in products with free or trial plans.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan freemium upgrades, trial-ending screens, feature-specific offers, usage-limit prompts, and tier-upgrade flows.
Why use it?
It helps present a paid upgrade after users understand the product's value and keeps the path to upgrading clear.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan freemium upgrades, trial-ending screens, feature-specific offers, usage-limit prompts, and tier-upgrade flows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/orkas-ai/orkas-awesome-agentskills/paywall-upgrade-cro
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills --skill paywall-upgrade-cro
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills

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.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.5 $0.00048 $0.01309
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00654
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00327

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8104b18390db, 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 1mo 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

This is a copy

100% identical to paywall-upgrade-cro — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

product/skills/marketing-skills/references/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. 1mo 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 Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills (13 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 3,272 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to paywall-upgrade-cro, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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