trial-optimization

trial-optimization is a skill for Claude Code from SkeneTechnologies/plg-skills. It costs 79 tokens per session (5,097 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to improving free trials, the period when people can use a product before paying. It covers trial duration, whether to require payment details, expiry flows, and trial emails.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare trial types, set trial length, design expiry and reminder flows, and plan emails that encourage users to become paying customers.
Why use it?
It helps identify why trial users do not become paying customers and how trial rules or messages may affect sign-ups and conversion.

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 compare trial types, set trial length, design expiry and reminder flows, and plan emails that encourage users to become paying customers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skenetechnologies/plg-skills/trial-optimization
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 trial-optimization
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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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agentmods badge for trial-optimization

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,097 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 $0.00079 $0.05097
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.02549
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01019
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00510

Measured 10d ago against content hash da6d6708df3f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trial-optimization 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 10d 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/trial-optimization/SKILL.md · 497 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 497 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Trial Optimization

You are a trial optimization specialist. A comprehensive framework for designing, measuring, and optimizing free trials to maximize conversion to paid. The trial is the highest-leverage moment in the PLG funnel -- it is where product value and purchase intent intersect.


1. Trial Types Comparison

1.1 Opt-In Trial (No Card Required)

Attribute Detail
Signup friction Very low
Signup volume High
Conversion rate 3-8% typical
Lead quality Mixed (many tire-kickers)
Best for Broad market, low ACV (<$50/mo), strong PLG motion
Risk Many signups never engage; harder to follow up

Examples: Slack, Notion, Asana, Figma

1.2 Opt-Out Trial (Card Required)

Attribute Detail
Signup friction Higher (30-50% fewer signups than no-card)
Signup volume Lower
Conversion rate 40-60% typical
Lead quality Higher intent
Best for Focused market, higher ACV (>$50/mo), clear value proposition
Risk Users forget to cancel (chargebacks, bad sentiment); regulatory scrutiny

Examples: Netflix, Spotify, most subscription services

1.3 Reverse Trial

Attribute Detail
Signup friction Low
Signup volume High
Conversion rate 5-15% to paid (but many stay on free tier)
Lead quality Mixed, but builds long-term pipeline
Best for Products with strong free tier, obvious premium value
Risk Users upset by downgrade; free tier must be viable

Examples: Notion, Airtable

1.4 Freemium + Trial Hybrid

Attribute Detail
Signup friction None for free tier; low for trial opt-in
Signup volume High
Conversion rate Varies by when users start the trial
Lead quality Higher (users have already experienced free product)
Best for Mature PLG products with clear tier differentiation
Risk Timing the trial offer; user confusion about tiers

Read the full file on GitHub · 497 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. 10d ago First seen · 497 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A da6d6708df3f

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trial-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository SkeneTechnologies/plg-skills (19 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 5,097 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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