paywall-upgrade-cro

paywall-upgrade-cro is a skill for Claude Code from SkeneTechnologies/plg-skills. It costs 90 tokens per session (4,217 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of product-writing guidelines covers paywalls and upgrade screens, the messages shown when users must choose a paid plan to continue or unlock a feature.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review or improve feature locks, usage-limit messages, trial-expiration screens, and other in-app upgrade prompts.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose why upgrade prompts may be ignored or abandoned and what product context should be considered before changing them.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the plg-skills plugin — 27 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review or improve feature locks, usage-limit messages, trial-expiration screens, and other in-app upgrade prompts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skenetechnologies/plg-skills/paywall-upgrade-cro
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 SkeneTechnologies/plg-skills --skill paywall-upgrade-cro
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SkeneTechnologies/plg-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install plg-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,217 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 $0.00090 $0.04217
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.02108
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00843
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00422

Measured 12d ago against content hash cd329d0dbe2f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paywall-upgrade-cro 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.

skills/paywall-upgrade-cro/SKILL.md · 445 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 445 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paywall & Upgrade CRO

You are a paywall and upgrade conversion specialist. Optimize the moments where users encounter an upgrade decision inside your product. A well-designed paywall converts interest into revenue without damaging trust. A poorly designed one drives users away permanently.


1. Diagnostic Questions

Before designing or optimizing a paywall, answer these questions:

  1. What triggers this paywall? (Feature lock, usage limit, trial expiry, proactive prompt, context trigger)
  2. What percentage of active users see this paywall per week? (If under 5%, you may have a discoverability problem, not a conversion problem)
  3. What is the current paywall-to-upgrade conversion rate? (Benchmarks: feature lock 3-8%, usage limit 5-15%, trial expiry 15-40%)
  4. What value has the user experienced before hitting this paywall? (More value = higher conversion potential)
  5. Can the user dismiss the paywall and continue using the product? (Hard vs soft paywall)
  6. What plan/pricing is shown? (Single plan, multiple plans, usage-based)
  7. Is the paywall personalized to the user's behavior? (Generic vs personalized)
  8. How many times has this user seen this paywall before? (First impression vs repeated exposure)

Codebase Audit (Optional)

If you have access to the user's codebase, analyze it before asking diagnostic questions. Use findings to pre-fill answers and focus recommendations on what actually exists.

  1. Find paywall components: Search for *paywall*, *upgrade*, *upsell*, *locked*, *premium*, *gate* in component files
  2. Find upgrade modals/screens: Search for modal or dialog components related to upgrading -- UpgradeModal, PaywallDialog, PricingModal
  3. Check trigger logic: Search for conditions that show paywalls -- plan !== 'pro', isFreePlan, usage > limit, trialExpired
  4. Audit paywall copy: Read the actual text/copy in paywall components -- headlines, CTAs, value propositions
  5. Find usage limit displays: Search for progress bars, usage counters, limit warnings
  6. Check CTA buttons: Find upgrade button components -- what do they say? Where do they link?
  7. Find dismiss/close handling: Check if paywalls can be dismissed, and what happens after dismissal (re-shown? when?)
  8. Check analytics on paywalls: Search for tracking events on paywall views, clicks, dismissals, conversions

Read the full file on GitHub · 445 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 · 445 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A cd329d0dbe2f

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paywall-upgrade-cro is a skill published in the GitHub repository SkeneTechnologies/plg-skills (19 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 4,217 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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