rc-alternative-billing

rc-alternative-billing is a skill for Claude Code from RevenueCat/ai-toolkit. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,019 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for planning Google Play alternative billing, which lets eligible apps collect payment outside the standard Play Store checkout. It describes what RevenueCat's Android SDK handles and what still requires direct Google billing integration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scope User Choice Billing, Alternative Billing Only, External Offers, or External Payment Links before implementing an Android payment flow.
Why use it?
It prevents treating different Google billing programs as interchangeable and helps account for changing SDK support and regional eligibility.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the revenuecat-play-billing plugin — 20 skills shipped together

not rated 65repo 8d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: pass 50 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to scope User Choice Billing, Alternative Billing Only, External Offers, or External Payment Links before implementing an Android payment flow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/revenuecat/ai-toolkit/rc-alternative-billing
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 RevenueCat/ai-toolkit --skill rc-alternative-billing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RevenueCat/ai-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install revenuecat-play-billing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,019 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
  • Socket pass 12 Jun 2026
  • Snyk warn 12 Jun 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 $0.00050 $0.01019
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00509
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00102

Measured 11d ago against content hash baa2afec2338, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rc-alternative-billing 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 11d 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.

revenuecat-play-billing/skills/rc-alternative-billing/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Alternative Billing Programs

Google runs several programs that let you collect payment outside standard Play Store billing. This skill tells you which pieces the RevenueCat Android SDK covers today and which ones you implement yourself against the Play Billing Library.

Per the handbook chapter, RevenueCat has limited support for these programs as of SDK 9.x. Treat that as the status of record; check the RevenueCat changelog for any newer SDK releases before you start work.

Phase 1: Discovery

Answer these before writing any code.

Question Why it matters
Which program are you targeting? User Choice Billing, Alternative Billing Only, External Offers, and External Payment Links each have different Play requirements.
Is your app eligible in the target region? Google gates these programs by country and app category. You enroll through Play Console, not through RevenueCat.
Are you using RevenueCat Web Billing instead? RevenueCat's web checkout is a separate product from Google's alternative billing. Do not conflate the two.
Which RevenueCat SDK version are you on? Support evolves per release. What is unsupported in SDK 9.x may land later.

If you actually want to sell subscriptions via a RevenueCat-hosted web checkout, that is not one of Google's alternative billing programs. Use Offering.webCheckoutURL or Package.webCheckoutURL:

val pkg = offerings.current?.monthly
pkg?.webCheckoutURL?.let { url ->
    startActivity(Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url.toString())))
}

After the user completes that purchase on the web, they redeem it in-app via deep link handling.

Phase 2: Plan

Decide which of the two paths fits.

Path A: Wait for SDK support. If your launch timeline is flexible, watch the RevenueCat changelog and docs for first-class support of the specific program you need. This avoids running raw Play Billing Library code alongside RevenueCat.

Path B: Hand roll the integration. If you must ship now, implement the Play Billing Library APIs for the target program directly. The RevenueCat SDK owns the BillingClient instance, so running raw BillingClient calls alongside it needs care.

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 11d ago First seen · 95 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A baa2afec2338

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rc-alternative-billing is a skill published in the GitHub repository RevenueCat/ai-toolkit (65 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,019 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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