backend

backend is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from RevenueCat/play-billing-skills. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,380 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of rc-backend, Apache-2.0.

A guide to using RevenueCat’s server API and subscription data from a backend. RevenueCat verifies Google Play purchases for you, while your server reads or changes RevenueCat’s recorded customer and entitlement information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when your backend needs to read customer access, grant or revoke entitlements, manage attributes, or choose between real-time API reads and event-based webhooks.
Why use it?
It clarifies which API key belongs on the server and prevents you from building a second receipt-verification system or exposing secret credentials in the app.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when your backend needs to read customer access, grant or revoke entitlements, manage attributes, or choose between real-time API reads and event-based webhooks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/revenuecat/play-billing-skills/backend
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add RevenueCat/play-billing-skills --skill backend
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RevenueCat/play-billing-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,380 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 $0.00061 $0.01380
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00690
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00276
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00138

Measured 12d ago against content hash cc2cd5902e54, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to rc-backend — 2 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.

revenuecat/backend/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backend Architecture with RevenueCat

You do not build a receipt verification server with RevenueCat. Your backend still has a role, but that role is consuming RevenueCat state, not validating Google Play purchase tokens.

Phase 1: Discovery

RevenueCat's backend is the receipt verification server. When the Android SDK posts a purchase token, RevenueCat's backend:

  1. Calls purchases.subscriptionsv2.get or purchases.products.get against the Google Play Developer API.
  2. Validates the receipt is genuine and matches the expected product.
  3. Records the transaction in its database.
  4. Returns CustomerInfo to the SDK.

Your Android app never calls the Google Play Developer API. Your server does not call it either.

Before writing any backend code, confirm these facts about your deployment:

  • You have a RevenueCat project with an Android app configured.
  • You have a secret API key from Project Settings to API Keys (not the public Android SDK key embedded in the app).
  • You know which app_user_id your SDK uses (the same identifier your auth system uses).
  • You have decided whether the backend needs real time state (REST API) or event driven state (webhooks).

If your app only gates features inside the client, you may not need a backend component at all. RevenueCat verifies CustomerInfo server side before it reaches the SDK, and EntitlementVerificationMode.INFORMATIONAL or .ENFORCED adds signature verification on the client. Serve premium content from a server only when you can verify entitlement on the server.

Phase 2: Plan

Map each backend responsibility to a RevenueCat mechanism.

Use case Mechanism Notes
React to purchase, renewal, cancellation Webhook receiver RevenueCat posts normalized events; your server updates its own DB.
Check current entitlement for a user GET /v1/subscribers/{app_user_id} Secret API key in Authorization header.
Grant promotional access (support, refunds, comps) POST /v1/subscribers/{app_user_id}/entitlements/{entitlement_id}/promotional Server side only.
Revoke promotional access POST /v1/subscribers/{app_user_id}/entitlements/{entitlement_id}/revoke_promotionals Server side only.
Set subscriber attributes from server side data POST /v1/subscribers/{app_user_id}/attributes Useful for CRM fields the SDK does not know.
Bulk data export RevenueCat data export Scheduled exports to your warehouse.

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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. 12d ago First seen · 137 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A cc2cd5902e54

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backend is a skill published in the GitHub repository RevenueCat/play-billing-skills (53 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,380 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to rc-backend, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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