paywall-rules SKILL.md skillA

paywall-rules from theoutlines/subscription-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add theoutlines/subscription-skills/paywall-rules@git:20261107.bc5940a

Pins git:20261107.bc5940a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
theoutlines/subscription-skills
Path
plugins/subscription-skills/skills/paywall-rules/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
git:20261107.bc5940a, committed Nov 7, 2026
First version recorded
Nov 7, 2026
Size
12,455 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
CC-BY-4.0

Rules for an agent that builds or edits a subscription paywall or onboarding screen in code (SwiftUI, React Native, Flutter, web) — what App Review and Google Play require on the screen, the patterns that won in published A/B tests, and the ones that lost. Use whenever you write, change or review a paywall, trial offer, plan picker or onboarding flow for an iOS or Android subscription app, before it ships or goes to App Review. Also for "my paywall isn't converting", paywall optimization…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Paywall rules for agents

Use this while you write or change a paywall or onboarding screen, not after. It has three parts: what the stores require (a screen that breaks these gets rejected or flagged), what won in published A/B tests, and what lost. Results are what other apps saw, not a forecast for this app.

Sources: Apple's [App Review Guidelines](https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#subscriptions) (3.1.2 and 5.6, updated October 16, 2026), Apple's [auto-renewable subscriptions page](https://developer.apple.com/app-store/subscriptions/), Apple's [HIG on in-app purchase](https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/apple-in-app-purchase), and Google Play's [subscriptions policy](https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9900533). Test results come from public case studies, linked on each line. Rules dated November 7, 2026.

## Before you start

- **Where does this paywall appear?** At the end of onboarding, or inside the app (a locked feature, a settings upgrade)? Some results flip with placement (section 3). If the user hasn't said and it matters for what they asked, ask in one line.
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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add theoutlines/subscription-skills/paywall-rules@sha256:f79f5e36fd9bf223

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261107.bc5940a, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, all committed on Nov 7, 2026.

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git:20261107.d6cb87e2026-11-07 d6cb87e 10,611 BA view · diff
git:20261107.b12d8262026-11-07 b12d826 7,685 BA view

Audit of the latest version

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  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12455 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

theoutlines/subscription-skills · 3 stars · license CC-BY-4.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_t4jhetrjkpemvgvf
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=theoutlines/subscription-skills/paywall-rules
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f79f5e36fd9bf2232e38b77f2f4fbfcaf9b657406f057f29856f411452513ec8

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