creative-ads-explorer

creative-ads-explorer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DKeken/codex-skills-alternative. It costs 115 tokens per session (1,102 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A brainstorming tool for creating up to 25 different advertising ideas. It combines message angles, such as benefits or urgency, with formats such as static ads, carousels, and user-generated-content styles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create hypotheses for paid social, display, TikTok, Google Display, X, or YouTube campaigns, including headlines, visual prompts, and reasons for each idea.
Why use it?
It helps when you need many testable ideas before choosing which advertisement to produce fully. It reduces the risk of committing early to one message or format.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create hypotheses for paid social, display, TikTok, Google Display, X, or YouTube campaigns, including headlines, visual prompts, and reasons for each idea.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dkeken/codex-skills-alternative/creative-ads-explorer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add DKeken/codex-skills-alternative --skill creative-ads-explorer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DKeken/codex-skills-alternative

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,102 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 $0.00115 $0.01102
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00551
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00110

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0b2d1e2477dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creative-ads-explorer 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 9d 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/creative-ads-explorer/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Creative — Ads Explorer

Pump out a broad, diverse batch of ad hypotheses for A/B/n testing. This is the exploration stage: quantity + diversity beat polish. The goal is to cover the message space so the market tells you what works — not to perfect one ad.

When to use

  • Launching paid social/display and need a test batch.
  • An existing ad is fatiguing and you need fresh angles.
  • Validating which message resonates before investing in production.

When NOT to use

  • You already know the winning angle and just need it finished → creative-polish.
  • You're merchandising a specific discount/bundle → creative-offer (sharper for that).
  • No visual direction exists and brand look matters → lock it via creative-explore first.

Inputs (ask only what's missing)

  • Product + core offer (what they get).
  • Audience + their #1 pain or desire (the emotional hook).
  • Platform: Meta, TikTok, Google Display, X, YouTube — sets aspect + length limits.
  • Locked visual direction (from creative-explore) if available, so the batch stays on-brand.

The angle × format matrix

Build hypotheses by crossing angles with formats:

  • Angles: pain, benefit, social-proof, urgency/scarcity, curiosity/pattern-interrupt, comparison/vs-incumbent, founder/origin story, transformation/before-after.
  • Formats: static hero, hook-frame (thumb-stopper top third), UGC mock (handheld, casual), bold-text overlay, before/after split, problem→solution 2-panel.

Not every cell is worth filling — pick the combinations most likely to resonate for THIS audience.

Workflow

  1. Pick the count (default 12, max 25). Choose the highest-potential angle×format cells.
  2. For each: headline (≤7 words), subtext, visual prompt, and why it might win (the hypothesis being tested).
  3. Kill near-duplicates aggressively — two ads testing the same idea waste spend.
  4. Generate visuals with your image-generation tool at platform ratio (1024x1024 square, 1792x1024 landscape, or vertical for stories/TikTok). Save to ./creative/ads/<NN>-<angle>.png.
  5. Output a ranked table; mark the top 3-5 to launch first and state what each one is testing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 9d ago First seen · 70 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A 0b2d1e2477dd

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creative-ads-explorer is a skill published in the GitHub repository DKeken/codex-skills-alternative (15 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 1,102 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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