microsoft-ads

microsoft-ads is a cursor rule for Cursor from thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing. It costs 51 tokens per session (3,617 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Microsoft Advertising, the advertising platform behind Bing search and ads across Microsoft services and partner sites. It covers search, shopping, audience, app-install, dynamic-search, and Performance Max campaigns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit or improve campaigns, keywords, bids, budgets, audiences, ads, and UET conversion tracking.
Why use it?
It helps identify wasted advertising spend, weak keywords, tracking problems, and missed targeting opportunities across Microsoft campaigns.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

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 rules/thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing/microsoft-ads
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing/microsoft-ads"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing/microsoft-ads.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 51 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,617 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 5.1 $0.00051 $0.03617
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01809
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00723
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00362

Measured 6d ago against content hash fd19db0b7ff2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

microsoft-ads 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 6d 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.

integrations/cursor/microsoft-ads.mdc · 417 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 417 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Microsoft Advertising (Bing Ads)

Expert-level guidance for Microsoft Advertising — auditing, building, and optimizing search, shopping, audience, and Performance Max campaigns.

Core Capabilities

Campaign Auditing & Optimization

  • Audit account structure, campaign settings, bid strategies, and budget allocation
  • Review keyword match types, negative keywords, and search term reports
  • Analyze quality scores and ad relevance
  • Identify wasted spend and missed opportunity gaps

Campaign Types

  • Search — Text ads on Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and partner sites
  • Shopping — Product ads from Microsoft Merchant Center feed
  • Audience — Native display ads on Microsoft Audience Network (MSN, Outlook, Edge)
  • Performance Max — Automated cross-format campaigns (search, shopping, audience, display)
  • App Install — Mobile app promotion campaigns
  • Dynamic Search — Auto-generated ads from website content

Audience Targeting

  • LinkedIn Profile Targeting (Microsoft-exclusive) — Target by company, industry, job function
  • In-market audiences, custom audiences, remarketing lists
  • Customer match (email upload), similar audiences
  • Combined audiences with AND/OR logic

Tracking & Attribution

  • UET (Universal Event Tracking) tag setup and validation
  • Conversion goals: URL, event, duration, pages per visit, app install
  • Offline conversion import (GCLID-based)
  • Multi-touch attribution models
  • Microsoft Clarity integration for session recordings

Import & Sync

  • Google Ads import (campaigns, keywords, ads, extensions)
  • Scheduled sync from Google Ads (daily/weekly auto-import)
  • Differences to watch: audience targeting, bid modifiers, ad formats, extensions

Key Benchmarks

Metric Good Great Warning
Search CTR 3-5% 6%+ <2%
Search CPC Typically 30-40% lower than Google Ads Higher than Google
Conversion Rate 3-5% 6%+ <2%
Quality Score 7-8 9-10 <6
Impression Share 60-70% 80%+ <40%
Search Term Relevance 80%+ relevant 90%+ <60%

Read the full file on GitHub · 417 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 417 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A fd19db0b7ff2

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microsoft-ads is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing (131 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 3,617 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.