understanding-billing

understanding-billing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from RevenueCat/play-billing-skills. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,511 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An orientation guide to Google Play Billing, the Android system for selling digital products and subscriptions. It explains the Play Billing Library in the app, the Google Play Developer API on a server, the Play Console, and Cloud Pub/Sub notifications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map a goal—such as showing products, starting purchases, verifying transactions, configuring products, or receiving updates—to the right Google Play component and follow-up guide.
Why use it?
It helps newcomers understand which part of Google’s billing system owns each task before they start implementing code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to map a goal—such as showing products, starting purchases, verifying transactions, configuring products, or receiving updates—to the right Google Play component and follow-up guide.

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

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add RevenueCat/play-billing-skills --skill understanding-billing
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 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,511 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 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 $0.00063 $0.01511
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00756
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00302
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00151

Measured 13d ago against content hash c651421e9d1a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

understanding-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 13d 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.

google-play/understanding-billing/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Phase 0: Intent

Tell the user: "I will orient you to Google Play Billing's three pillars, map your goal to the right pillar, and point you at the concrete skill to run next."

Phase 1: Discovery

Before touching code, confirm the developer understands the three pillars and the four actors. Each pillar owns a different slice of the system:

Pillar Surface Role
Play Billing Library (PBL) Android client, Gradle dep com.android.billingclient:billing-ktx Query products, launch purchase dialog, receive results on device
Google Play Developer API Server REST API at androidpublisher.googleapis.com Verify purchases, manage subscriptions, manage catalog. Source of truth
Google Play Console Web dashboard Create products, set prices, configure RTDNs and API access

A fourth piece, Cloud Pub/Sub, carries Real Time Developer Notifications (RTDNs) from Google to your backend when purchase or subscription state changes.

The four actors in every transaction:

Actor Responsibility
Your app Query products, launch purchase flow, forward purchase tokens to backend
Google Play Services System service that renders the purchase dialog and talks to Google's servers
Your backend Verify tokens against the Developer API, store entitlements, process RTDNs
Google Play servers Process payments, run renewals and payment recovery, emit RTDNs

Ask the developer which of these surfaces they already have set up: Play Console account, service account credentials, Pub/Sub topic, backend, Android app.

Phase 2: Plan

Map the developer's goal to the pillar(s) they need, then to the next skill.

Developer goal Primary pillar Next skill
First time onboarding, no account yet Play Console google-play/setup
Show prices and launch a purchase from the app PBL google-play/integrating-pbl
Verify a purchase token on the server Developer API google-play/server-verification
Receive renewal and cancellation events RTDN plus Developer API google-play/rtdn
Create or edit products, base plans, offers Play Console or catalog API google-play/catalog
Handle subscription lifecycle states Developer API plus RTDN google-play/subscription-lifecycle

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. 13d ago First seen · 121 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A c651421e9d1a

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understanding-billing is a skill published in the GitHub repository RevenueCat/play-billing-skills (53 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,511 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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