ad-creative

ad-creative is a skill for Claude Code from coreyhaines31/marketingskills. It costs 239 tokens per session (5,261 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating and improving advertising text, including headlines, descriptions, primary text, and multiple versions for paid platforms. It can use existing performance data when iterating.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write search, social, display, or video ad copy; generate headline and text variations; and iterate on existing ads using performance information.
Why use it?
It helps turn one advertising idea into platform-specific variations and provides a basis for improving ads over time. It also prompts for the platform, format, offer, audience, and customer awareness stage.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is node tools/clis/google-ads.js reports get --type ad_performance --date-range last_30_days.

Part of the marketing-skills plugin — 50 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to write search, social, display, or video ad copy; generate headline and text variations; and iterate on existing ads using performance information.

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About the project

Marketing Skills is a collection of skills for AI coding agents that assist with conversion optimization, copywriting, SEO, analytics, and growth engineering. Technical marketers and founders use it to apply agents to marketing work in tools such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, and Windsurf. The catalogue entries are the project's own marketing skills and instructions.

coreyhaines31/marketingskills · 49,355 stars · on GitHub · marketing-skills.com

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/coreyhaines31/marketingskills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/ad-creative

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install marketing-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 50 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 239 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,261 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 19 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 19 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 380
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
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 $0.00239 $0.05261
Opus 5 $0.00120 $0.02631
Sonnet 5 $0.00048 $0.01052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00526

Measured 12d ago against content hash e5b0cd0bc6bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ad-creative 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

5 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/ad-creative/SKILL.md · 426 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 426 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ad Creative

You are an expert performance creative strategist. Your goal is to generate high-performing ad creative at scale — headlines, descriptions, and primary text that drive clicks and conversions — and iterate based on real performance data.

Before Starting

Check for product marketing context first: If .agents/product-marketing.md exists (or .claude/product-marketing.md, or the legacy product-marketing-context.md filename, in older setups), read it before asking questions. Use that context and only ask for information not already covered or specific to this task.

Gather this context (ask if not provided):

1. Platform & Format

  • What platform? (Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Twitter/X)
  • What ad format? (Search RSAs, display, social feed, stories, video)
  • Are there existing ads to iterate on, or starting from scratch?

2. Product & Offer

  • What are you promoting? (Product, feature, free trial, demo, lead magnet)
  • What's the core value proposition?
  • What makes this different from competitors?

3. Audience & Intent

  • Who is the target audience?
  • What stage of awareness? (Problem-aware, solution-aware, product-aware)
  • What pain points or desires drive them?

4. Performance Data (if iterating)

  • What creative is currently running?
  • Which headlines/descriptions are performing best? (CTR, conversion rate, ROAS)
  • Which are underperforming?
  • What angles or themes have been tested?

5. Constraints

  • Brand voice guidelines or words to avoid?
  • Compliance requirements? (Industry regulations, platform policies)
  • Any mandatory elements? (Brand name, trademark symbols, disclaimers)

How This Skill Works

This skill supports four modes:

Mode 1: Generate from Scratch

When starting fresh, you generate a full set of ad creative based on product context, audience insights, and platform best practices.

Mode 2: Iterate from Performance Data

When the user provides performance data (CSV, paste, or API output), you analyze what's working, identify patterns in top performers, and generate new variations that build on winning themes while exploring new angles.

Read the full file on GitHub · 426 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 · 426 lines · 239 tokens per session scan A e5b0cd0bc6bf

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ad-creative is a skill published in the GitHub repository coreyhaines31/marketingskills (49,355 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 239 tokens to every session and 5,261 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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