assistant-tutorial

An interactive tutorial for the Google Ads API Developer Assistant, a guide for writing software that communicates with Google Ads. It explains topics step by step and checks understanding with questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn campaign creation, account audits, reports, conversion troubleshooting, and other listed Google Ads tasks.
Why use it?
It gives newcomers a guided way to learn the assistant's workflows, rules, and Google Ads API concepts instead of relying on a long reference document.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/googleads/google-ads-api-developer-assistant/assistant-tutorial
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/googleads/google-ads-api-developer-assistant
Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 306 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00015 $0.00306
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00153
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00031

Measured 2d ago against content hash a08b1bfbf43e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

assistant-tutorial scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/google-ads-api-developer-assistant/commands/assistant-tutorial.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Assistant Tutorial (/assistant-tutorial)

Launches an interactive, conversational guide explaining the principles, workflows, and tools of the Google Ads API Developer Assistant.

Instructions:

  1. Interactive Delivery Mandate:

    • Do NOT write a markdown summary file or artifact.
    • Run the tutorial interactively and conversationally.
    • Present information in small, progressive steps.
  2. Topic Outline:

    1. Core Principles & Constraints (NO MUTATE policy, versioning)
    2. Campaign Creation (Code Generation Workflow)
    3. Shared Sets (Exclusion Lists)
    4. Code Quality & Standards (Ruff, typing, error handling)
    5. Finding Disapproved Ads (Cross-Account Audit)
    6. Creating an AI Max for Search Campaign
    7. Creating a Demand Gen Campaign
    8. Writing Prompts to Produce Reports (GAQL best practices)
    9. Troubleshooting Conversion Problems
    10. Obtaining Descriptions of API Concepts & Objects
    11. Creating Listing Filters for Performance Max
  3. Check Questions & Explanations:

    • After explaining a topic, prompt the user to continue or quiz their understanding.
    • Always allow the user to request an explanation if needed.
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 32 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a08b1bfbf43e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

assistant-tutorial is a command published in the GitHub repository googleads/google-ads-api-developer-assistant (96 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 306 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.