tier-management

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

Tier	Emoji	Pollen	Cadence	Criteria
microbe	🦠	0	none	Account under review
spore	🍄	0.01	hourly	Verified accounts
seed	🌱	0.15	hourly	GitHub engagement
flower	🌸	0.4	hourly	Contributor
nectar	🍯	0.8	hourly	Legacy — still supported for existing users, no longer granted

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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?

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

Has a project in our lists?

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

Check for Seed (any ONE qualifies)

Involved in issues/PRs?

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

Starred repo?

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

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Update User Tier

How Tiers Work Now

• Tier balance refills hourly for all tiers
• No rollover - balance resets to tier amount each period
• Just update D1 - no external subscription system needed

Quick Update

Step 1: Find user

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

Step 2: Update tier

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

Balance will update automatically at next hourly refill cycle.

Step 3 (Optional): Immediate balance update

# Set balance immediately (e.g., flower = 0.4 pollen)
npx wrangler d1 execute DB --remote --env production \
  --command "UPDATE user SET tier='flower', tier_balance=0.4 WHERE github_username='USERNAME';"

Step 4: Notify user on GitHub

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

Your benefits:
- [POLLEN] free compute (refills hourly)
- All standard models

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Batch Processing

Find Users with Billing Issues

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

# 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

# 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

# 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

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

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Key Files

File	Purpose
enter.pollinations.ai/src/tier-config.ts	Tier → pollen mapping (source of truth)
enter.pollinations.ai/src/scheduled.ts	Cron handler: tier refill (hourly/daily)
enter.pollinations.ai/src/auth.ts	Sets tier on new user registration
enter.pollinations.ai/wrangler.toml	Cron schedule: 0 0 * * *

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Notes

• Tier balance refills hourly for all tiers; no rollover
• New users get spore tier + 0.01 pollen/hour
• Tier upgrades take effect on next refill (or set tier_balance manually)