# ads-optimize

Reviews paid-ad data, drafts changes, and applies them only after conditions are checked. Use it for budgets, bids, CPA, ROAS, and search-term decisions.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 655 installs · ★ 10428
- Author: AgriciDaniel
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-ads/tree/HEAD/skills/ads-optimize/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-17
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/ads-optimize

## What it does

The skill loads the latest normalized snapshot, prior decisions, monitoring results, experiment state, conversion lag, economics, and the platform capability manifest. It then compares no change, an experiment, and a campaign mutation while accounting for learning, policy, tracking, inventory, and opportunity cost.

It defaults to `--draft` and produces ranked recommendations with confidence and success measures. Approved recommendations pass through the main mutation gate; an action is applied only when that operation is enabled and remote state still matches the draft precondition. This means the underlying account data deserves a check before changes go live.

The skill refuses permanent deletion of campaigns, ad groups, ads, audiences, conversions, and other account objects. It can instead suggest pausing, archiving, labels, a backup, or a later review date. Search-term actions require a search terms report, business-relevance evidence, and an overblocking review.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add AgriciDaniel/claude-ads --skill ads-optimize -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add AgriciDaniel/claude-ads --skill ads-optimize -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add AgriciDaniel/claude-ads --skill ads-optimize -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install AgriciDaniel/claude-ads ads-optimize
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/ads-optimize/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add AgriciDaniel/claude-ads --skill ads-optimize -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-ads --path skills/ads-optimize
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add AgriciDaniel/claude-ads --skill ads-optimize -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/AgriciDaniel/claude-ads/tree/HEAD/skills/ads-optimize/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- reallocate campaign budget from available evidence
- compare an experiment with a bid change
- prepare a reversible pause plan for ads
- review search terms before negative-keyword action
- verify conditions before applying account mutations

## Example prompts
- Prepare `--draft` recommendations to improve campaign CPA and ROAS.
- Compare no change, an experiment, and a budget mutation for the current campaign data.
- Review the search terms report and propose action only where the required evidence is present.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: ads-optimize
description: "Diagnose and draft or explicitly apply paid-ad optimizations using evidence, financial constraints, experiments, and capability-gated adapters. Use for campaign optimization, budget reallocation, bid changes, pausing or archiving ads, requests to delete campaigns, search-term or negative-keyword actions, creative rotation, or improving CPA and ROAS."
---

# Paid Media Optimization

Default to `--draft`.

1. Load the latest normalized snapshot, prior decisions, monitoring results,
   experiment state, conversion lag, economics, and platform capability manifest.
2. Identify the decision and causal evidence; do not optimize a metric in isolation.
3. Compare no-change, experiment, and mutation options, including learning, policy,
   tracking, inventory, and opportunity-cost effects.
4. Produce ranked recommendations with confidence and success measures.
5. Convert approved recommendations into mutation plans only through the main
   mutation gate.
6. Apply, verify, audit, and retain rollback only when the exact operation is
   enabled and remote state still matches the draft precondition.

Never use a fixed CPA multiple, budget ratio, benchmark, or novelty claim as sole
authorization to change an account.

## Destructive-action boundary

Refuse permanent deletion of campaigns, ad groups, ads, audiences, conversions,
or other account objects. Permanent deletion is outside the supported mutation
contract and cannot be made safe by confirmation. Offer reversible alternatives:
leave objects paused, archive where supported, apply labels, export a backup, and
define a retention or later-review date. Do not create or apply a delete plan.

Search-term actions require a search terms report, business-relevance evidence,
and an overblocking review. Without them, request the missing evidence and do not
invent or illustrate specific negative keywords.
```
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© AgriciDaniel · MIT · https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-ads/tree/HEAD/skills/ads-optimize/SKILL.md

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