bid-strategy-planner

bid-strategy-planner is a skill for Claude Code from aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills. It costs 127 tokens per session (2,422 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A paid-ad planning skill that chooses how an advertising platform should bid for conversions or clicks. It covers options such as target cost per action, target return on ad spend, maximum conversions, and manual cost-per-click bidding.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose a bid strategy, set an initial target, group campaigns that should share bidding, and plan how to enter and leave the learning phase.
Why use it?
It helps match the bidding method and starting target to a campaign's goal and past conversion results, including the early learning period.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; built for openclaw.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is Emit the standard shape from [skill-contract.md §Handoff Summary Format](../../../references/skill-contract.md)..

Part of the aaron-marketing plugin — 120 skills shipped together , and of aaron-marketing

Good fit Use it to choose a bid strategy, set an initial target, group campaigns that should share bidding, and plan how to enter and leave the learning phase.

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About the project

aaron-marketing-skills is a collection of 120 AI-agent skills covering marketing work such as brand narrative, search optimization, social media, email, advertising, influencer campaigns, and launches. Marketers and agent users can install it as a plugin, use its portable skills, or run its described bot team. The catalogue entries are components of this marketing workflow.

aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills · 2,767 stars · on GitHub · aaronmarketing.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills/bid-strategy-planner

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aaron-marketing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 120 skills.

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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,422 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 2 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 2 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00127 $0.02422
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01211
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00484
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00242

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0df1deacc659, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bid-strategy-planner 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 10d 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.

ad/orchestrate/bid-strategy-planner/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bid Strategy Planner

Chooses the bid strategy for a paid campaign — tCPA, tROAS, max-conversions, or manual CPC — sets the starting target from the account's own conversion history, groups campaigns into a bid portfolio, and lays out a learning-phase entry plan. This is the plan skill that sets the ROAS S (Spend-efficiency) bidding lever; it does not allocate the budget (budget-optimizer), does not adjust pacing in-flight (budget-pacing-monitor), and does not score the account or run the vetoes (ad-account-auditor).

Quick Start

Pick a bid strategy for [campaign]: DR goal, past 30 days $42 CPA at 90 conversions/mo
Set a starting tROAS target for [campaign] — history is 3.8x ROAS, goal is 4.5x
Group these 4 search campaigns into a bid portfolio and plan the learning-phase entry

Output: a named bid strategy with rationale, the starting target and how it was derived (labeled Measured / User-provided / Estimated), a portfolio grouping map, and a learning-phase entry/exit plan.

Skill Contract

  • Reads: ROAS profile (direct-response|prospecting|incremental-profit), conversion history (CPA / ROAS + conversion volume from the user's own GA4/ecommerce export), current bid strategy if restructuring, campaign set + budgets, and any minimum-daily-conversion or account-structure constraints. Connector data via ~~web analytics / ~~ecommerce (own-data manual export) when available.
  • Writes: a bid-strategy recommendation (strategy + starting target + portfolio map + learning-phase entry plan) and a reusable handoff summary. Save path: memory/ad/bid-strategy-planner/YYYY-MM-DD-<campaign>.md.
  • Promotes: the chosen strategy, the locked starting target, and the portfolio grouping — propose durable decisions as pending-decision items in memory/open-loops.md; do not write memory/decisions.md directly.
  • Done when:
    1. One bid strategy is named with a rationale tied to the goal and the conversion-volume threshold.
    2. The starting target is stated with its derivation, and every input metric is labeled Measured / User-provided / Estimated.
    3. A learning-phase entry plan names the conversions-to-exit estimate and the do-not-touch window.
  • Primary next skill: ad-account-auditor — scores the campaign against ROAS (the S lever + premature-scaling guardrail) before launch.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago Changed 0df1deacc659
  2. 13d ago First seen · 102 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A fa4ec97d9ee5

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bid-strategy-planner is a skill published in the GitHub repository aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills (2,767 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 2,422 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.