spy

spy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from adkit/ads-mcp. It costs 85 tokens per session (613 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool guide for researching the advertisements that companies currently show in an advertising library across Meta, Google, and LinkedIn.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find advertisers, browse their image, video, and carousel ads, search ad copy, sort results, and track advertisers by name or website.
Why use it?
It removes the need to search each advertiser and campaign manually. It helps you compare competitors’ ad wording, formats, platforms, and related advertisers.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ads plugin — 5 skills, 2 MCP servers shipped together

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 skills/adkit/ads-mcp/spy
Any agent
npx skills add adkit/ads-mcp --skill spy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adkit/ads-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ads, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 2 MCP servers.

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 613 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 $0.00085 $0.00613
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00307
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00061

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2750de5f4ff3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spy 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 3d 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.

skills/spy/SKILL.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

Spy on Competitor Ads

The ad library (adkit_library) lets you search advertisers and browse their ads across platforms.

Requires AdKit to be connected — run /ads:setup first if needed.

1. Find the advertiser

Search by name:

adkit_library entity: "advertisers" action: "search" params: { search: "Notion" }

Or browse by industry:

adkit_library entity: "advertisers" action: "list" params: { industry: "SaaS", sort: "spend" }

Advertiser actions

Action Key params
list industry, category, platform, sort (name/newest/spend)
search search (required), plus any list filters
get id — full advertiser details and stats
similar advertiserId — find similar advertisers
add website or name — track a new advertiser

2. Browse their ads

adkit_library entity: "ads" action: "search" params: { advertiser: "<advertiserId>", sort: "score" }

Ad search params

Param Description
advertiser Advertiser ID filter
query Free text search across ad copy
platform meta, google, or linkedin
format image, video, or carousel
sort random, newest, oldest, score, most-used, longest, spend

Advanced filters (min-days, min-spend, min-score, language) available via adkit_help path: "library ads search".

Get full details: adkit_library entity: "ads" action: "get" id: "<adId>" — returns creative content, copy, metadata, and landing page.

3. Clone an ad

Found an ad worth replicating? Clone it via the studio skill:

adkit_studio entity: "ads" action: "generate" params: { mode: "clone", aspectRatio: "1:1", references: [{ type: "library-ad", id: "<adId>" }] }
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. 3d ago First seen · 66 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 2750de5f4ff3

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spy is a skill published in the GitHub repository adkit/ads-mcp (12 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 613 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.