budget-pacing-monitor

budget-pacing-monitor is a skill for Claude Code from aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills. It costs 133 tokens per session (2,611 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A campaign-monitoring skill that compares an active campaign's spending with the target spending curve over time. Campaign pacing shows whether spending is on track, ahead, behind, or stalled.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check whether a campaign is on track for its budget, review learning-phase status, and identify when a budget reallocation may be needed.
Why use it?
It helps detect overspending, underspending, and spending spikes while a campaign is running, so budget changes can be considered.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

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

Good fit Use it to check whether a campaign is on track for its budget, review learning-phase status, and identify when a budget reallocation may be needed.

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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 · 3,024 stars · on GitHub · aaronmarketing.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install aaron-marketing

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 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,611 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 warn 2 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 $0.00133 $0.02611
Opus 5.5 $0.00053 $0.01044
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00522
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00261

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 670fbe2e65d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

budget-pacing-monitor 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 1mo 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/scale/budget-pacing-monitor/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Budget Pacing Monitor

Reads an in-flight campaign's spend against its intended target curve and returns a pacing verdict (On-track / Ahead / Behind / Stalled), the learning-phase status, an over/under-delivery call, and a reallocation trigger when the gap crosses a stated band. This is the in-flight S-lever watcher on the ROAS loop — distinct from budget-optimizer (which sets the initial allocation this skill monitors), bid-strategy-planner (which picks the bid strategy), and ad-account-auditor (which computes the RQS). It owns the spend curve, the pace read, and the reallocation trigger — not the number it started from and not the score.

Quick Start

Check pacing on Campaign X — daily budget is $200, we're 9 days into a 30-day flight. Am I on track?
Spend spiked on the prospecting set two days ago and the daily cap is getting hit by noon — over-delivering?
This campaign has spent 30% of budget with 60% of the flight gone — is it under-delivering, and should I move budget?

Skill Contract

Expected output: a pacing read for one campaign or flight — cumulative spend vs the target curve (percent-to-pace), a verdict (On-track / Ahead / Behind / Stalled), the learning-phase status, an over/under-delivery call with the driver (cap-limited, bid-throttled, low-volume, dayparting), and a reallocation trigger (fire / hold) with the band that decided it. Plus a handoff summary storable under memory/ad/budget-pacing-monitor/.

  • Reads: the campaign/flight under watch, its budget (daily or lifetime) and flight window, the intended target curve (even / front-loaded / back-loaded), the live campaign report export (spend by day, impression share lost to budget if present, delivery status), and the learning-phase status per platform.
  • Writes: a user-facing pacing table plus a reusable pacing summary storable under memory/ad/budget-pacing-monitor/.
  • Promotes: a fired reallocation trigger, the projected end-of-flight spend, and the next pacing-check date to memory/open-loops.md; ask before writing.
  • Done when: spend is read against a target curve fixed before the check (not a bare "spent X of Y"); learning-phase status is confirmed before any over/under-delivery call is acted on; the verdict is one of the four with its percent-to-pace; and the reallocation trigger is fire/hold with the band it crossed named.
  • Primary next skill: use the Next Best Skill below.

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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. 1mo ago Changed 670fbe2e65d2
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 82 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A 02abd8982650

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budget-pacing-monitor is a skill published in the GitHub repository aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills (3,024 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 2,611 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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