A specialized AI coding agent skill designed to track, manage, and optimize recurring subscription costs and renewal dates within a structured markdown workspace.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install subscriptions
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install subscriptions using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Subscriptions?
The Subscriptions skill empowers users to take full control of their digital economy by building a centralized, markdown-based tracking system for all recurring payments. By leveraging Openclaw Skills, this agent monitors your spending habits, flags price increases, and ensures you never get hit by an unexpected annual renewal again.
This skill provides a structured local workspace to categorize services into streaming, software, and general services. It offers a clear visual representation of your monthly and yearly financial commitments, helping you prune low-value services and maintain a lean budget.
Subscriptions Use Cases
- Identifying unused subscriptions that have not been accessed in over 30 days to suggest cancellation.
- Consolidating billing dates for streaming, SaaS, and monthly services into a single source of truth.
- Predicting upcoming high-cost annual renewals to avoid surprise charges on credit cards.
- Monitoring price hikes and suggesting cancellations for services with low perceived value.
How Subscriptions Works
- The agent initializes a dedicated local workspace directory at
~/subscriptions/to store all financial metadata. - When a user mentions a subscription or cost, the agent automatically populates or updates the relevant category files.
- The skill parses these entries to generate a comprehensive
totals.mdfile summarizing monthly and yearly expenditures. - Based on billing dates and user-provided usage patterns, the agent triggers alerts for upcoming renewals.
- When a service is stopped, the agent logs it in a dedicated file to track lifetime savings and prevent re-subscribing to ghost services.
Subscriptions Setup
To get started with this skill from the Openclaw Skills collection, ensure your agent has access to your local filesystem and run the following commands:
# Create the directory structure for your subscription tracker
mkdir -p ~/subscriptions/active
touch ~/subscriptions/cancelled.md
touch ~/subscriptions/totals.md
# Initialize categories
touch ~/subscriptions/active/streaming.md
touch ~/subscriptions/active/software.md
touch ~/subscriptions/active/services.md
Once created, simply tell the agent: "Add my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription at $55/month billing on the 15th to my software tracker."
Subscriptions Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill organizes data using a hierarchical markdown structure to ensure portability and human-readability.
| File/Folder | Description | Key Metadata tracked |
|---|---|---|
active/ |
Folder containing active service categories | Cost, Frequency, Billing Date |
cancelled.md |
Log of terminated services | Cancellation date, Reason, Savings |
totals.md |
Auto-generated financial summary | Monthly totals, Yearly projections |
Each entry within the files includes fields for Cost, Billing Date, Payment Method (e.g., Visa •4242), Last Used date, and Perceived Value (Essential/High/Medium/Low).
Subscriptions Advanced Features
- Automated quarterly review prompts to ask if specific services are still providing value.
- Usage pattern tracking that flags services unused for 30+ days for immediate cancellation.
- Price increase detection that alerts you when a recurring charge deviates from the logged cost.
- Annual renewal countdowns that trigger reminders 7 days before high-cost charges occur.
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