wasted-spend-finder

wasted-spend-finder is a cursor rule for Cursor from thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing. It costs 44 tokens per session (2,137 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An analysis of Google Ads and Meta advertising data that identifies spending linked to search terms, placements, audiences, keywords, or creatives that produce no conversions. A conversion is a desired result such as a purchase or signup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during account onboarding, monthly cleanup, or budget reviews to create categorized exclusion lists for Google Ads and Meta.
Why use it?
It helps separate potentially wasted budget from normal advertising activity using spend, clicks, and conversion thresholds.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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

Good fit Use it during account onboarding, monthly cleanup, or budget reviews to create categorized exclusion lists for Google Ads and Meta.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing/wasted-spend-finder
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.

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

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 44 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,137 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00044 $0.02137
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01069
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00427
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00214

Measured 11d ago against content hash 54e0934f2b68, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wasted-spend-finder 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 11d 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/wasted-spend-finder.mdc · 304 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 304 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Wasted Spend Finder

Identify and categorize wasted ad spend across Google Ads and Meta platforms. Produces uploadable exclusion lists with thematic categorization.

Core Capabilities

Google Ads Waste Detection

  1. Search Term Waste — zero-conversion terms above spend threshold
  2. Placement Waste — Display Network sites/apps and YouTube channels with no conversions
  3. Keyword-Level Waste — low conversion rate keywords relative to spend

Meta Ads Waste Detection

  1. Placement Waste — Audience Network apps, low-quality inventory
  2. Audience Segment Waste — lookalike/interest targeting with poor performance
  3. Creative Waste — high frequency + zero conversions, creative fatigue

Waste Thresholds

Spend Threshold Formula

Waste threshold = Average CPA x Multiplier

Multiplier by campaign type:
- Search (branded): 2x CPA
- Search (non-brand): 3x CPA
- Display: 3x CPA
- Meta (all): 2.5x CPA

A search term, placement, or audience segment is flagged as waste when:

  • Spend exceeds the threshold AND
  • Conversions = 0 AND
  • Minimum click threshold is met

Minimum Click Thresholds

Campaign Type Min Clicks Before Flagging
Search (branded) 50
Search (non-brand) 25
Display / GDN 15
YouTube 20
Meta Feed 20
Meta Stories 15
Meta Audience Network 10

Conversion Rate Minimums

Flag keywords/placements performing below these floors:

Campaign Type Min Conversion Rate
Search (branded) 8%
Search (non-brand) 1.5%
Display 0.3%
YouTube 0.2%
Meta Feed 0.5%
Meta Stories 0.3%

Negative Keyword Categorization

Classify wasted search terms into themes for organized exclusion:

Theme Pattern Match Type
Competitor terms Brand names, product names Exact / Phrase
Informational intent how to, what is, tutorial, guide, definition Phrase
Wrong product/service Related but non-target products Phrase / Exact
Geographic irrelevance Wrong cities, states, countries Exact
Job/career searches jobs, salary, hiring, career, resume Phrase
Free/cheap intent free, cheap, discount, coupon, deal Phrase
Irrelevant modifiers DIY, homemade, kids, old, used Phrase

Read the full file on GitHub · 304 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. 11d ago First seen · 304 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 54e0934f2b68

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wasted-spend-finder is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing (136 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 2,137 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.