Build a monetized app on Eliza Cloud

Use this skill when you need to build an app that takes a markup on every chat or inference call and credits the earnings back to your owner. Eliza Cloud already supports app registration, per-app API keys, container deploys, the appId-based auth and redirect flow, the affiliate-header revenue path, and creator-monetization plumbing — you do not need to invent any of these.

Read references/sdk-flow.md for the 6-step build flow with a self-contained code example. External references (all public):

• Working chat-app: elizaOS/cloud-mini-apps/apps/edad-chat — copyable end-to-end implementation. Read its server.ts and api/proxy.ts for the canonical chat-forwarder shape using @elizaos/cloud-sdk.
• SDK reference: @elizaos/cloud-sdk README — typed methods + helpers + auth.
• Human-readable recipe: docs/building-a-monetized-app.md — same loop, narrative form, with the schema fields explained.

The survival-economics loop

A Milady-style agent running in an Eliza Cloud container costs ~$0.67/day at the default tier (256 MB CPU + 512 MB RAM). When the org's credit balance and the owner's redeemable earnings both hit zero, the container is stopped after a 48-hour grace window. The container-billing cron pulls earnings before credits, so an app that earns more than its hosting costs keeps the agent alive indefinitely. See references/survival-economics.md for the exact accounting (redeemable_earnings_ledger, credit_transactions, the cron at app/api/cron/container-billing/route.ts).

This is why the skill exists: making money is how the agent stays online.

Default flow