# revenuecat-identify-user

Wires your app's login and logout to RevenueCat so app users and subscribers match up.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 788 installs · ★ 76
- Author: RevenueCat
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/RevenueCat/ai-toolkit/tree/HEAD/revenuecat/skills/revenuecat-identify-user/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
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## What it does

This skill covers the identity half of RevenueCat: calling `logIn` and `logOut` on the SDK. It first detects your platform from project files — `react-native-purchases` in `package.json` means React Native, `pubspec.yaml` means Flutter, a `kotlin { … }` block in `build.gradle.kts` means Kotlin Multiplatform, then Android and iOS. It reads the matching platform file, where both calls sit inside a typical auth state observer.

The shared rules are where the sharp edges are. RevenueCat hands out an anonymous ID prefixed `$RCAnonymousID:` until `logIn` runs, and purchases made anonymously get aliased onto the real `appUserID` on first login, so nothing is lost. Do not pass email, phone number or a sequential database id as the `appUserID` — use an opaque backend UUID or a hash, because the value is hard to change later. `logOut` only works on an identified user; on an anonymous ID every SDK throws.

Switching accounts means `logOut`, wait, then `logIn` with the new ID. A second `logIn` without the logout aliases the two IDs together. `Purchases.configure(…)` has to run first or the SDK throws. Initial SDK setup, purchases and entitlement gating live in other skills.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add RevenueCat/ai-toolkit --skill revenuecat-identify-user -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/revenuecat-identify-user/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/revenuecat-identify-user/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add RevenueCat/ai-toolkit --skill revenuecat-identify-user -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/revenuecat-identify-user/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add RevenueCat/ai-toolkit --skill revenuecat-identify-user -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/revenuecat-identify-user/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install RevenueCat/ai-toolkit revenuecat-identify-user
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/revenuecat-identify-user/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add RevenueCat/ai-toolkit --skill revenuecat-identify-user -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/RevenueCat/ai-toolkit --path revenuecat/skills/revenuecat-identify-user
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/revenuecat-identify-user/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add RevenueCat/ai-toolkit --skill revenuecat-identify-user -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/RevenueCat/ai-toolkit/tree/HEAD/revenuecat/skills/revenuecat-identify-user/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- attach anonymous purchases to a user after login
- switch subscriptions when a user changes accounts
- call `logIn` from an auth state listener
- handle `logOut` on an anonymous user without a crash
- pick a stable `appUserID` instead of an email

## Example prompts
- Tie my app's login to RevenueCat: call logIn after the session is confirmed
- User signs out and back in as someone else — do logOut, then logIn
- Set up RevenueCat identity for my Flutter project

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: revenuecat-identify-user
description: Tie RevenueCat identity to your app's auth system. Use when the user asks to log in to RevenueCat, sync a user with RevenueCat, switch RevenueCat user on login, log out of RevenueCat, move a user from anonymous to identified, set appUserID, or handle account switching on iOS, Android, Kotlin Multiplatform, Flutter, or React Native.
---

# revenuecat-identify-user: connect RevenueCat to your auth system

Use this skill when the user wants to call `logIn` / `logOut` on the RevenueCat SDK so that their app users line up with RevenueCat subscribers. This skill does not cover initial SDK setup (see `integrate-revenuecat`), purchases (`revenuecat-purchase-flow`), or gating (`revenuecat-entitlements-gate`).

## 1. Detect the platform

Inspect the working directory and pick the **first** match, from top to bottom:

1. **React Native**: `package.json` has a `react-native-purchases` entry, or `react-native` as a dependency → read `platforms/react-native.md`. If `expo` is also a dependency, note it as an Expo project.
2. **Flutter**: `pubspec.yaml` exists at the project root → read `platforms/flutter.md`.
3. **Kotlin Multiplatform**: `build.gradle.kts` contains a `kotlin { … }` multiplatform source sets block, or depends on `com.revenuecat.purchases:purchases-kmp*` → read `platforms/kmp.md`.
4. **Android (native)**: `build.gradle(.kts)` applies `com.android.application` (and is not KMP) → read `platforms/android.md`.
5. **iOS (native)**: `Package.swift`, `*.xcodeproj`, `*.xcworkspace`, or `Podfile` at the project root → read `platforms/ios.md`.

If several match (e.g. an `ios/` folder inside a Flutter project), pick the **outermost** project, the one that owns the build. If still ambiguous, ask the user which platform they want to configure.

## 2. Shared concepts (all platforms)

- **Anonymous by default.** Before `logIn` is called, RevenueCat assigns a stable anonymous ID prefixed `$RCAnonymousID:`. Purchases made while anonymous are aliased onto the real `appUserID` the first time `logIn` is called with it, so there is no "lost purchase" risk from letting users buy before signing in.
- **Never use email, phone number, or a sequential database id as the appUserID.** Use a stable opaque value such as your backend's user UUID, or a hash of the user id. RevenueCat treats the ID as an opaque string and it is difficult to change later.
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