validate-changes

A dry-run command that checks planned Google Ads changes against the Google Ads API without applying them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review pending_changes.json, validate the planned operations, read returned errors, and confirm whether the changes are ready to execute.
Why use it?
It helps find invalid or problematic advertising changes before they are sent for execution.

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/trueclicks/claude-plugins/validate-changes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TrueClicks/claude-plugins
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 263 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00000 $0.00263
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00131
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00026

Measured yesterday against content hash 07fc2e30af1c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate-changes scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

mkdir -p tmp && curl -s --max-time 230 -D tmp/response_headers.txt -X POST "https://api.claudeppc.ai/api/cli/google-ads/validate-changes?pluginVersion=1.8.0" -F "[email protected]" -F "pendingChanges=@pending_changes.j
plugins/google-ads/commands/validate-changes.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

Validate Pending Google Ads Changes

Validates the pending changes in pending_changes.json against the Google Ads API without executing them (dry-run).

  1. First, read pending_changes.json and display a brief summary to the user (number of operations by type).

  2. POST both files to the API (set Bash timeout to 240000ms — the server may take up to 230 seconds):

mkdir -p tmp && curl -s --max-time 230 -D tmp/response_headers.txt -X POST "https://api.claudeppc.ai/api/cli/google-ads/validate-changes?pluginVersion=1.8.0" -F "[email protected]" -F "pendingChanges=@pending_changes.json"

Check tmp/response_headers.txt for a line starting with X-Plugin-Update:. If found, display its value to the user as a notice. Then delete the headers file: rm -f tmp/response_headers.txt.

  1. After the API responds:
    • If validation succeeded: confirm the changes are ready for execution with /google-ads:execute-changes.
    • If validation failed: show the errors, explain what went wrong, and suggest fixes for the pending_changes.json.
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. yesterday First seen · 18 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 07fc2e30af1c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

validate-changes is a command published in the GitHub repository TrueClicks/claude-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 263 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.