---
type: skill
slug: subscription-audit
name: Subscription Audit
audience: people
category: Home & Money
schedule: Monthly, 1st at 9:00 AM
setup: 3 minutes
platforms: [Grok Bot, Muse, Dots]
writes_or_sends: Read-only. Never cancels or changes a plan without your OK for that item.
version: 1.0.0
updated: 2026-10-31
---

# Subscription Audit

> Every recurring charge on one page, and the ones worth cutting.

- Category: Home & Money
- Schedule: Monthly, 1st at 9:00 AM
- Works with: Grok Bot, Muse, Dots
- Setup time: 3 minutes
- Version: 1.0.0 (updated 2026-10-31)
- Cost: light

## What it does

Subscription Audit finds the money leaking out a few dollars at a time. Once a month it reads the receipt emails or statements you choose, lists every recurring charge with the monthly and yearly total, and flags what deserves a second look: two services that do the same job, a price that quietly went up, something you haven't used in months, and a free trial about to turn into a bill. Each flag comes with the service's own cancellation page. It cancels nothing unless you name the item and say yes.

## What you get

- Every recurring charge with monthly and yearly totals
- Duplicates and price increases flagged
- Possibly unused services, asked as a question
- Trials about to bill, with the last day to cancel
- Each service's own cancellation link

## Data it uses

- Gmail or Outlook (receipts), or statements you upload
- Web search (cancellation pages) (optional)

## Safety

- Writes or sends: Read-only. Never cancels or changes a plan without your OK for that item.
- Reads: Receipt and renewal emails (only if connected)
- Reads: Card or bank statements you upload or paste
- Reads: Public cancellation and pricing pages
- Cost: Low: one run a month (a first run over 13 months of receipts is heavier).
- Warning: Never buys, pays, cancels, returns or sends anything without your explicit OK for that item.
- Warning: Statements are sensitive: share only the ones you want checked. It shows only the last 4 digits of a card.
- Warning: It never asks for or stores passwords, and never uses third-party cancellation services.

## Install

- SKILL.md: https://botplaza.lol/skills/subscription-audit/SKILL.md
- Zip: https://botplaza.lol/downloads/subscription-audit.zip
- JSON: https://botplaza.lol/skills/subscription-audit.json
- Ready prompt: https://botplaza.lol/api/install?slug=subscription-audit&platform=grok (or muse, dots)
- MCP: call install_skill with slug "subscription-audit" at https://botplaza.lol/api/mcp

### Grok Bot (verified)

1. Copy skills/subscription-audit/SKILL.md (the whole file, including the --- header).
2. Open a one-to-one chat with your Grok Bot and paste the prompt below, with the file where it says.
3. When the Bot asks, connect: Gmail or Outlook (optional, to read receipts and renewal notices). It shows a connect card right in the chat.
4. Try it once now: "Run Subscription Audit."
5. The routine shows in the Bot's info pane (click the Bot's name in the chat header) under Routines, where you can pause or edit it.

Note: Skills and routines are saved by asking the Bot; no settings to dig through.

### Muse (partially-verified)

1. Copy skills/subscription-audit/SKILL.md.
2. Open Muse and paste the prompt below with the file where it says.
3. Try it: "Run Subscription Audit." Muse has no skill install for outside skills, so it follows the pasted instructions.
4. Ask Muse to make it a recurring task on the 1st of every month at 9:00 AM. It then shows under the Assistant icon > Upcoming.
5. Muse Code (developer CLI): unzip downloads/subscription-audit.zip, run `muse skills validate ./subscription-audit` then `muse skills install ./subscription-audit --scope user`. Optional: add the BotPlaza connector (https://botplaza.lol/api/mcp) under mcpServers in ~/.config/muse/settings.json.

Note: Recurring tasks and Muse Code skill install are documented by Meta. Installing outside skills in the Muse app is not.

### Dots (partially-verified)

1. Copy skills/subscription-audit/SKILL.md.
2. Paste the prompt below into your dot's conversation in ChatGPT, with the file where it says.
3. Wait for the dot to confirm the schedule, time zone and end date.
4. Optional: in ChatGPT, Plugins > + > Add custom MCP server with https://botplaza.lol/api/mcp (no authentication). Dots can use installed plugins, but OpenAI hasn't said whether that includes custom ones.
5. Business, Enterprise, Healthcare and Edu workspaces can also upload downloads/subscription-audit.zip under Plugins > Skills > Create > Upload from your computer.

Note: Dots are available on ChatGPT Pro, Business Premium and Enterprise, and are still rolling out. Pasting instructions in and scheduled check-ins are documented.

Page: https://botplaza.lol/skills/subscription-audit/