wasted-spend

wasted-spend is a command for Claude Code from HYPD-AI/ads-mcp-plugin. It costs 15 tokens per session (180 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of negatives, MIT.

A command for finding inefficient or unnecessary Google Ads spending and estimating the money connected to each finding. Google Ads is Google’s online advertising platform.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate wasted ad spend and efficiency problems after the required HYPD setup and account selection are complete.
Why use it?
It gives an advertising account owner a structured way to identify where budget may be producing poor results.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the hypd-ai-ads plugin — 3 skills, 11 commands, 2 MCP servers shipped together

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/hypd-ai/ads-mcp-plugin/wasted-spend
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HYPD-AI/ads-mcp-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hypd-ai-ads, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 11 commands, 2 MCP servers.

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README.md
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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 180 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00015 $0.00180
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00090
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00036
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00018

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6fddb0f62cab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wasted-spend 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 5d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to negatives — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

commands/wasted-spend.md · 12 lines

What it actually says

Run a wasted-spend analysis for $ARGUMENTS.

  1. Ensure init has been run once this session — call it first if not.
  2. Resolve which account the user means (list accounts if needed).
  3. Call prompt_templates_run with key analyze-wasted-spend-efficiency and follow the returned prompt's [input] directives — $ARGUMENTS may already answer some of them; ask only for what is still missing.
  4. Execute the analysis with HYPD's tools and deliver every output section the returned prompt asks for.

If HYPD is unavailable or not authenticated, do not fail — follow the hypd-getting-started skill to guide the user through connecting.

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. 5d ago First seen · 12 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 6fddb0f62cab

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wasted-spend is a command published in the GitHub repository HYPD-AI/ads-mcp-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 180 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to negatives, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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