assistant-tutorial

An interactive tutorial for learning the Google Ads API, the programming interface used to manage Google advertising accounts. It teaches through selected topics, explanations, and step-by-step walkthroughs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn a Google Ads API topic, request a plain-language explanation, or work through an API process interactively.
Why use it?
It breaks unfamiliar API concepts and workflows into smaller conversations instead of requiring the learner to read a complete reference first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/googleads/google-ads-api-developer-assistant/assistant-tutorial
Any agent
npx skills add googleads/google-ads-api-developer-assistant --skill assistant-tutorial
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/googleads/google-ads-api-developer-assistant

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 988 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 $0.00018 $0.00988
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00494
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00099

Measured 2d ago against content hash f6aecf885be1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

assistant-tutorial 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 2d 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.

plugins/google-ads-api-developer-assistant/skills/assistant-tutorial/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.

[!NOTE]

  • If you want a real-world analogy and conceptual explanation for any Google Ads API concept, use the /explain <concept> command.
  • If you want to walk through a process or workflow step-by-step, use the /step-by-step <process> command.

Critical Directive for the Agent

When a user invokes /assistant-tutorial or requests this tutorial:

  1. NO MD SYNOPSIS FILES: You MUST NOT write any markdown files or artifacts summarizing the tutorial.
  2. ALWAYS INTERACTIVE: You MUST run this tutorial as an interactive, conversational experience.
  3. TOPIC SELECTION: Start by asking the user which specific topic they want to learn about first using an interactive question or message.
  4. PROGRESSIVE DISCLOSURE: Present information in small, manageable pieces. Ask checking questions or prompt the user to proceed before moving on to the next step.
  5. EXPLAIN ANSWER OPTION: Whenever you pose an interactive check question or quiz to the user, include a choice/option that allows them to ask the Assistant to answer and explain the answer.

Tutorial Content Reference

Topic 1: Core Principles & Constraints

  • The "NO MUTATE" Read-Only Policy: The Assistant cannot execute mutate operations (such as create, update, or delete) directly. Instead, it provides the code for the mutate in the ~/saved/code/ directory, which the user can run themselves or incorporate into their codebase.
  • API Versioning: All code and GAQL queries target the confirmed version in config/api_version.txt.

Topic 2: Campaign Creation (Code Generation Workflow)

  • Explain the generation & execution workflow.
  • Show standard template structures.
  • NO MUTATE Execution Warning: Remind the user that the Assistant is designed for read-only operations and cannot execute campaign creation mutate code directly.

Topic 3: Shared Sets (Exclusion Lists)

  • Explain SharedSet (reusable keyword/placement exclusion folders), SharedCriterion (items), and CampaignSharedSet (connector).
  • Describe relationships and benefits.

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. 2d ago First seen · 70 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A f6aecf885be1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

assistant-tutorial is a skill published in the GitHub repository googleads/google-ads-api-developer-assistant (96 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 988 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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