subscription-lifecycle

subscription-lifecycle is a skill for Claude Code from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (3,347 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

StoreKit 2 code for managing what happens after an App Store subscription is purchased, including payment problems, renewals, and plan changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor subscription status, handle billing retries and grace periods, redeem offers, support win-back flows, and manage upgrades or downgrades.
Why use it?
It helps an app respond when billing fails, a subscription enters a grace period, or a customer changes plans.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the apple-skills plugin — 147 skills shipped together , and of apple-skills

Good fit Use it to monitor subscription status, handle billing retries and grace periods, redeem offers, support win-back flows, and manage upgrades or downgrades.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/subscription-lifecycle
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 rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills --skill subscription-lifecycle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install apple-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 147 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,347 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
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 $0.00055 $0.03347
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01673
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00669
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00335

Measured 5d ago against content hash 428c7eda3697, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

subscription-lifecycle 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 5d 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.

skills/generators/subscription-lifecycle/SKILL.md · 399 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 399 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Subscription Lifecycle Generator

Generate production StoreKit 2 subscription lifecycle management with real-time status monitoring, grace period handling, billing retry detection, offer code redemption, win-back offers, and upgrade/downgrade path support.

Different from paywall-generator: The paywall generator handles the purchase UI and initial transaction. This skill handles everything that happens after purchase — monitoring subscription state changes, handling payment failures, retaining churning users, and managing tier transitions.

Why retention math dominates acquisition (per Apple's Tech Talk):

  • Commission compounds: 70% net in year one → 85% once a subscriber passes 1 year. Retained subscribers are literally worth more per renewal.
  • The base compounds harder: from 10,000 subscribers, 12 months later 85% monthly retention leaves 1,673; 90% leaves 3,487; 95% leaves 5,688. A 5-point retention gain more than doubles the surviving base.

When This Skill Activates

Use this skill when the user:

  • Asks about "subscription management" or "subscription lifecycle"
  • Mentions "grace period handling" or "grace period UI"
  • Wants "billing retry" detection or payment failure handling
  • Asks about "win-back offers" or "re-engagement offers"
  • Mentions "subscription status" monitoring or dashboard
  • Wants "upgrade/downgrade" path management
  • Asks about "offer codes" or "promotional offers"
  • Mentions "subscription churn" or "retention"
  • Wants to "track subscription state changes"

Pre-Generation Checks

1. Project Context Detection

  • Check deployment target (StoreKit 2 requires iOS 15+)
  • Check for @Observable support (iOS 17+ / macOS 14+)
  • Check Swift version (requires Swift 5.9+)
  • Identify source file locations

2. Existing StoreKit Detection

Search for existing subscription code:

Glob: **/*Store*.swift, **/*Subscription*.swift, **/*Entitlement*.swift
Grep: "import StoreKit" or "Transaction.updates" or "Product.SubscriptionInfo"

Read the full file on GitHub · 399 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago First seen · 399 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 428c7eda3697

Subscribe to this mod's changes

subscription-lifecycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (710 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 3,347 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 2026-09-03.