placement-exclusion-manager

placement-exclusion-manager is a skill for Claude Code from aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills. It costs 142 tokens per session (2,152 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A campaign-planning skill that creates lists of websites, apps, channels, networks, topics, and content types where ads should not appear. Brand safety means preventing ads from appearing beside unsuitable or harmful content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before a campaign launch to set placement, network, content-suitability, and sensitive-topic exclusions, or to prepare placement evidence for an auditor.
Why use it?
It helps reduce the risk of ads appearing in unwanted places and organizes evidence for a brand-safety review.

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 before a campaign launch to set placement, network, content-suitability, and sensitive-topic exclusions, or to prepare placement evidence for an auditor.

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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/placement-exclusion-manager

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 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,152 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 $0.00142 $0.02152
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.01076
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00430
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00215

Measured 10d ago against content hash a008d7eeba77, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

placement-exclusion-manager 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/activate/placement-exclusion-manager/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Placement Exclusion Manager

Builds the brand-safety and exclusion lists that gate spend before a campaign goes live — placement/site/app/channel exclusions, network opt-outs, and content-suitability and sensitive-topic blocks — then references the audience exclusion set from audience-segment-builder and packages the placements evidence the auditor reads to judge ROAS A1 (brand/placement safety). It hardens where ads are not allowed to run; it does not build the audiences you do target or the audience exclusions themselves, and it does not score the account or issue the A1 verdict.

Quick Start

Build brand-safety exclusion lists for [goal] on [platforms] before launch. Here is my placements report: [paste/path].
Set placement, network, and content-suitability exclusions for [account]; brand-safety constraints: [no politics/news/UGC, competitor sites, etc.].
Package the A1 brand/placement-safety evidence for the auditor from this placements + campaign export: [paths].

Skill Contract

Expected output: a placement/network exclusion list (sites, apps, channels, network opt-outs), a content-suitability & sensitive-topic block list, a reference to the audience exclusion set consumed from audience-segment-builder (not re-derived here), a packaged A1 evidence file (placements report + exclusion decisions with rationale), and the standard handoff summary.

  • Reads: account/campaign goal and brand-safety constraints, exported placements report (own data — where ads served / could serve), campaign + search-terms report, and the targeted-audience set from audience-segment-builder when present.
  • Writes: a user-facing exclusion plan, the A1 evidence file, and a reusable summary to memory/ad/placement-exclusion-manager/.
  • Promotes: chosen brand-safety constraints, exclusion decisions, and any missing placements report to memory/hot-cache.md and memory/open-loops.md; propose durable brand-safety rules as pending-decision items (never write decisions.md directly).
  • Done when: placement/network exclusions are specified against a named goal; content-suitability + sensitive-topic blocks are listed; the audience exclusion set is referenced or noted as a dependency; and the A1 evidence file is packaged, or absent placements evidence leaves qualified A1 evidence Unknown and the run NEEDS_INPUT.
  • Primary next skill: ad-account-auditor to score the full RQS and issue the A1 verdict on this evidence.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 10d ago Changed a008d7eeba77
  2. 13d ago First seen · 84 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A e1b90c167bc2

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placement-exclusion-manager 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 142 tokens to every session and 2,152 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.