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name: tier-management description: Evaluate and update Pollinations user tiers. Check balances, upgrade devs, batch process users. For finding users with errors, see model-debugging skill first.

Requirements

Before using this skill, ensure you have:

• GitHub CLI: brew install gh && gh auth login
• Node.js/npx: brew install node
• Wrangler: npm install -g wrangler
• jq: brew install jq (for parsing JSON)
• sops: brew install sops (for decrypting secrets)

Must run from the pollinations repo root with access to enter.pollinations.ai/.

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Tier Levels

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Upgrade Paths

🍄 Spore → 🌱 Seed

• ⭐ Starred the pollinations repo
• 💬 Opened an issue or PR
• 💳 Made a purchase

🌱 Seed → 🌸 Flower

• 🛠️ Pushed code to pollinations/pollinations
• 📦 Has a project in our showcase
• 🌐 Built something open-source using our API

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Evaluate User Tier

Check for Flower (any ONE qualifies)

Has commits to pollinations?

Copygh api 'search/commits?q=repo:pollinations/pollinations+author:USERNAME' --jq '.total_count'

Has a project in our lists?

Copygrep -ri "author.*USERNAME" pollinations.ai/src/config/projects/

Check for Seed (any ONE qualifies)

Involved in issues/PRs?

Copygh api 'search/issues?q=repo:pollinations/pollinations+involves:USERNAME' --jq '.total_count'

Starred repo?

Copy.claude/skills/tier-management/scripts/fetch-stargazers.sh USERNAME

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Update User Tier

⚠️ IMPORTANT: You MUST update BOTH the database AND Polar subscription. The DB tier controls what tier the user CAN activate. The Polar subscription is what they HAVE activated.

Recommended: Use the Script

Copy.claude/skills/tier-management/scripts/update-tier.sh USERNAME TIER

Example:

Copy.claude/skills/tier-management/scripts/update-tier.sh s0974092 flower

This script automatically:

1. Finds the user by username or email
2. Updates the database tier
3. Updates the Polar subscription (via sops for auth)
4. Verifies the change

Manual Method

Step 1: Find user

Copycd enter.pollinations.ai
npx wrangler d1 execute DB --remote --env production \
  --command "SELECT id, github_username, email, tier FROM user WHERE LOWER(github_username) LIKE '%USERNAME%';"

Step 2: Update database

Copynpx wrangler d1 execute DB --remote --env production \
  --command "UPDATE user SET tier='TIER' WHERE github_username='USERNAME';"

Step 3: Update Polar subscription

Copyexport POLAR_ACCESS_TOKEN=$(sops -d secrets/prod.vars.json | grep POLAR_ACCESS_TOKEN | cut -d'"' -f4)
npx tsx scripts/manage-polar.ts user update-tier --email USER_EMAIL --tier TIER

Add --dryRun to preview changes without applying.

Step 4: Notify user on GitHub

Copy🎉 **Tier Upgrade Complete!**

Hey @USERNAME! You've been upgraded to **[EMOJI] [TIER] tier**! ✨

Your benefits:
- [POLLEN] pollen/day
- ⚡ Priority queue
- 🎨 All standard models

Thanks for being part of Pollinations! 🚀

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Batch Processing

Find Users with Billing Issues

Use the model-debugging skill to find users hitting 402 errors (billing/quota):

Copy# Find spore-tier users with >10 402 errors in last 24 hours
.claude/skills/model-debugging/scripts/find-402-users.sh 24 10 spore

# Save to file for batch processing
.claude/skills/model-debugging/scripts/find-402-users.sh 24 10 spore | cut -f1 > /tmp/users.txt

Note: 402 = billing issues (pollen balance, key budget). 403 = permission issues (model access denied).

Check if User is a Developer

Copy# Check single user
.claude/skills/tier-management/scripts/check-github-dev.sh OliverCWY
# Output: dev: repos=12 followers=13 account_year=2017

Batch Upgrade Devs to Seed

Copy# Dry run first (no changes)
.claude/skills/tier-management/scripts/upgrade-devs.sh /tmp/users.txt --dry-run

# Apply upgrades
.claude/skills/tier-management/scripts/upgrade-devs.sh /tmp/users.txt

The script:

• Checks GitHub profile for dev activity (repos, followers, account age)
• Only upgrades users currently on spore tier (won't downgrade)
• Has 2s delay between GitHub API calls to avoid rate limiting
• Shows summary of upgraded/skipped users

Check User Balance

Copy.claude/skills/tier-management/scripts/check-user-balance.sh username_or_email

Legacy Batch Evaluate

Copyexport ENTER_ADMIN_TOKEN=your_token
export TIER_EVAL_GIST_ID=your_gist_id  # optional
.claude/skills/tier-management/scripts/batch-evaluate.sh

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Polar Product IDs (Production)

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Notes

• DB tier = what user CAN activate
• Polar subscription = what user HAS activated
• If no Polar subscription, user must click "Activate" at enter.pollinations.ai