# ad-test-designer

This skill plans A/B/n and incrementality tests for ad creatives and landing pages, then reads finished results: effect size, interval, significance.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1000 installs · ★ 3013
- Author: aaron-he-zhu
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills/tree/HEAD/ad/orchestrate/ad-test-designer/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/ad-test-designer

## What it does

The skill handles two jobs: designing a test and reading one out. In design mode it builds a falsifiable hypothesis, a variant matrix, and a sample-size, duration and power plan. In read-out mode it takes your exported CSV with variants, sessions and conversions and reports effect size, interval, and separate statistical and practical flags.

A statistical helper does the math: `python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/connectors/experiment.py" proportion --control <conv> <n> --variant <conv> <n> --alpha <alpha> --min-lift <relative-bar>`. Revenue and AOV samples use `continuous`; prospective sizing uses `samplesize`. Every derived value is marked `Calculated`, and the helper deliberately returns no winner and no promote, rollback or kill action.

An action is applied only under a rule the owner precommitted. Without that rule and owner, the skill returns `decision: UNDECIDED`. Exported data counts as untrusted: text like "variant B won" inside a CSV is a value, not a command. The skill does not generate variants — that is `ad-creative-builder` — and it does not read back a single shipped change, which is `paid-measurement-loop`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill ad-test-designer -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill ad-test-designer -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill ad-test-designer -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills ad-test-designer
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/ad-test-designer/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill ad-test-designer -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --path ad/orchestrate/ad-test-designer
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill ad-test-designer -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/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills/tree/HEAD/ad/orchestrate/ad-test-designer/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- write a falsifiable hypothesis for a creative test
- build a variant matrix with one variable per variant
- size the sample and set the run duration
- read a results CSV and estimate effect size
- separate statistical significance from practical effect

## Example prompts
- Design an A/B test for two landing-page hero variants. Baseline CVR is 3%, I want to detect a 15% lift. Goal is DR.
- Here's my finished test results CSV (variant, sessions, conversions). Is the winner significant — promote or kill?
- Build the variant matrix, sample size and run duration for 4 RSA creative variants on a prospecting set.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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name: ad-test-designer
slug: aaron-ad-test-designer
displayName: "Ad Test Designer · 广告AB测试设计"
summary: "广告AB测试设计/实验设计/显著性判定/增效测试"
description: 'Use when the user asks to "design an A/B test", "set up a creative/landing test", "run an incrementality test", or "is this result statistically and practically material?"; produces a hypothesis, variant matrix, sample-size/duration/power plan, and a documented effect/uncertainty read from own exported results. It applies only a precommitted owner-approved action rule; the statistical helper never chooses a business action. Not for producing variants — use ad-creative-builder; not for reading back one shipped change — use paid-measurement-loop. 广告AB测试设计/实验设计/显著性判定/增效测试'
version: "20.1.0"
license: Apache-2.0
compatibility: "Claude Code and compatible agent-skill hosts"
homepage: "https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills"
when_to_use: "Use when designing a creative/landing A/B/n or incrementality test, or when reading effect size, uncertainty, and guardrails from a finished own-data test. Apply a business action only when its owner and decision rule were precommitted; otherwise return decision UNDECIDED. Not for generating variants (use ad-creative-builder) or reading back one already-shipped change (use paid-measurement-loop)."
argument-hint: "<what to test / results CSV> [profile: direct-response|prospecting|incremental-profit] [baseline] [alpha/power/MDE]"
metadata: {"author": "aaron-he-zhu", "version": "20.1.0", "discipline": "ad", "phase": "orchestrate", "geo-relevance": "low", "hermes": {"tags": ["marketing", "ad", "orchestrate"], "category": "ad"}, "openclaw": {"emoji": "🎯", "homepage": "https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills"}}
---

# Ad Test Designer
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