# campaign-architect

Plans a paid-ads account before launch: campaign types, ad-group layout, match types, negative keywords, and paid-vs-organic overlap.

- 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/research/campaign-architect/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/campaign-architect

## What it does

The skill works out how a paid account should be built before anything goes live. It picks the campaign type — Search, PMax or broad — against the goal and how mature the intent is, then maps ad groups and asset groups so each one carries a single intent theme and no keyword sets bid against each other in the same auction.

Hygiene comes next: match types per theme, audience signals, negatives pulled from the search-terms report, and cross-campaign negatives that stop internal overlap. A separate step audits cannibalization — paid query themes get compared against organic landing pages in the GA4 traffic-acquisition export, and terms where the site already ranks and paid adds little incremental value get flagged.

Inputs are the account goal, exported campaign and search-terms reports, audience and placement reports, and the GA4 traffic-acquisition export. Keyed ad-platform APIs are optional; for Google Ads the sanctioned path is the official read-only Google Ads MCP, self-hosted, running GAQL over your own account. If the placements report is missing, the qualified ROAS-A1 item stays Unknown and no score is emitted. The skill does not compute the final RQS — it hands the structure to `ad-account-auditor`, and budget split belongs to `budget-optimizer`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/campaign-architect/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 campaign-architect
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --path ad/research/campaign-architect
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill campaign-architect -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/research/campaign-architect/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- choose between Search, PMax and broad for a given goal
- lay out ad groups and asset groups around one intent theme
- build a negative-keyword list from the search-terms report
- stop campaigns from overlapping inside the account
- check whether paid is bidding against organic

## Example prompts
- Plan the paid account structure for [goal] on [platforms]. Here is my exported campaign + search-terms report: [paste/path]
- Should this be Search, PMax, or broad match? Lay out ad groups and the negative-keyword list for [themes]
- Audit paid↔organic cannibalization: here is my GA4 traffic-acquisition export and my campaign export

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

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# Campaign Architect

Plans the structure of a paid-ads account — campaign types, ad-group/asset-group layout, targeting, match types, and negative/exclusion hygiene — and scores the ROAS **A (Audience)** dimension plus structure. It designs the paid account skeleton (distinct from organic site architecture) and hands the finished structure to the auditor that scores the full account; it does not compute the final RQS itself.
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