backend-architecture

backend-architecture is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from RevenueCat/play-billing-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (2,144 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A design guide for a server that checks Google Play purchase tokens and records what each customer is entitled to use. A purchase token is an identifier from Google Play that the server verifies before granting access.

In plain words
What is it for?
Receiving purchase tokens, checking them with Google's API, storing purchase records, mapping purchases to users, acknowledging purchases, and exposing a verification endpoint.
Why use it?
Information on the Android device can be altered, so the app alone cannot reliably prove that a payment happened. This guide defines the backend flow for verification, storage, acknowledgement, and account matching.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Receiving purchase tokens, checking them with Google's API, storing purchase records, mapping purchases to users, acknowledging purchases, and exposing a verification endpoint.

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Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00429
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Grade A, and why

backend-architecture 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.

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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.

google-play/backend-architecture/SKILL.md · 230 lines

How it starts

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Backend Architecture for Play Billing

The client is not trustworthy. Signatures can be forged, APKs can be modified, and local purchase data can be faked. Your backend must treat the purchase token as an opaque value to verify with Google. This skill walks you through the verification pipeline, from receiving a token to persisting entitlement state.

Phase 1: Scope

Confirm the following before you write code.

  • You know which product types you sell (subscriptions, consumables, non consumables). The API endpoint differs per type.
  • You have a user identity model. Each purchase token must map to one user account on your server.
  • You have (or can add) a database for purchase records. The schema uses purchaseToken as the primary key.
  • You have a plan for acknowledgement within 3 days. Unacknowledged purchases auto refund.
  • You have a Google Play Console account and can access Setup > API access.

If any of these are missing, stop and resolve before continuing.

Phase 2: Plan

2.1 Configure Google Play Developer API access

Do these steps once per project.

  1. In Play Console, open Setup > API access and link a Google Cloud project.
  2. In Cloud Console, enable the Google Play Android Developer API.
  3. Create a service account (for example play-billing-backend). No Cloud IAM roles are required.
  4. Generate a JSON key from the service account and store it as a secret. Never commit it.
  5. Back in Play Console, grant the service account Financial data and Manage orders permissions on your app.

For containerized deployments on Google Cloud, prefer Workload Identity Federation over JSON key files. GoogleCredentials.getApplicationDefault() picks up the attached service account automatically.

2.2 Map the seven step verification flow

Every purchase follows the same pipeline. Plan each step in code before wiring them.

  1. Receive purchase token from client.
  2. Call Google Play Developer API to fetch purchase state.
  3. Validate response fields (product ID, package name).
  4. Check purchase state is active or purchased.
  5. Check the token is not already processed (idempotency).
  6. Persist record and grant entitlement.
  7. Acknowledge the purchase with Google.

Read the full file on GitHub · 230 lines

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backend-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository RevenueCat/play-billing-skills (53 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 2,144 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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