google-ads-builder-branded-search

google-ads-builder-branded-search is a skill for Claude Code from chanktb/claude-google-ads. It costs 108 tokens per session (1,817 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Google Ads tool for creating branded Search campaigns that target searches for a business’s own name and, optionally, competitors’ names.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare ad groups, trademark-aware ad copy, campaign files, and brand-exclusion instructions for Google Ads Editor.
Why use it?
It helps protect traffic from competitors and keeps Performance Max and Shopping campaigns from taking credit for brand conversions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

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 claude-google-ads plugin — 15 skills, 15 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare ad groups, trademark-aware ad copy, campaign files, and brand-exclusion instructions for Google Ads Editor.

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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 chanktb/claude-google-ads
Claude Code
/plugin install claude-google-ads

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-google-ads, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 15 commands.

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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,817 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 $0.00108 $0.01817
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.00908
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00363
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00182

Measured 12d ago against content hash be9c2e12cd76, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

google-ads-builder-branded-search 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 12d 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/builder-branded-search/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

A focused Search campaign to (1) defend your own brand at near-certain ROAS and (2) optionally conquest competitors. Pushes cleanly via Editor CSV. Builds on builder-search patterns with brand-specific rules.

Operating rules

  • Read brand_terms and competitor_terms from account-context.yaml (set by setup). Read guardrails.
  • Write to the working directory: blueprint.xlsx + campaign-spec.json (campaign_type: "branded_search", ad_groups[]).
  • Coordinate brand exclusion: ensure PMax/Shopping have brand exclusion applied so they don't claim brand conversions (clean attribution). Honor the pmax-brand-exclusion guardrail.

Model dispatch (run cheap, decide expensive) — see ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/model-tier-dispatch.md

  • Scout (haiku) — per-URL 200 checks; char-count validation; brand-misspelling expansion.
  • Routine (sonnet) — pulling competitor domains from auction insights as conquesting candidates. Dispatch as general-purpose; return raw candidates, don't decide.
  • Judge (main session) — STEP 1-2 ad-copy (brand-led, trademark-aware — never a competitor TM in ad text), STEP 3 separation, bidding, the brand-exclusion coordination call. Trademark safety is judgment; never delegate it.

STEP 1 — Brand-defense ad group(s)

  • Keywords from brand_terms (own brand + variants + common misspellings), Exact + Phrase. No broad.
  • Copy uses your own brand prominently, your USPs, and your real offers. Target high impression share at low CPC (brand intent converts cheaply).
  • RSA: up to 15 headlines (≤30) / 4 descriptions (≤90), keyword-led, with CTA.

STEP 2 — Competitor conquesting — optional, trademark-aware, a SEPARATE campaign

  • Only if competitor_terms exist and the user wants it. Emit it as its OWN campaign-spec, not an ad group inside the brand-defense campaign — because bid strategy is campaign-level and conquesting needs Maximize Conversions, not the defense campaign's Target Impression Share. (You do NOT want to bid to dominate a competitor's SERP at absolute-top 90% — expensive, low-intent.)
  • Keywords from competitor_terms (Phrase/Exact).
  • Trademark rules: do NOT put a competitor's trademark in the ad TEXT (headlines/descriptions/paths) — only as keywords. Emit the competitor terms as a spec-level trademark_avoid[] so the validator BLOCKS any in ad text. Lead with YOUR differentiators ("wholesale pricing", "free shipping", a price extension with your real prices on the competitor SERP), not the competitor's name. Expect lower CTR/QS, higher CPC.
  • Add YOUR brand_terms as negatives so conquesting never overlaps the brand-defense campaign.

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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. 12d ago First seen · 100 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A be9c2e12cd76

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google-ads-builder-branded-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository chanktb/claude-google-ads (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 1,817 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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