ima-sdk-basics

ima-sdk-basics is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hamzabellouch/agent-skills. It costs 77 tokens per session (541 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ima-sdk-client-side, MIT.

A guide for placing video or audio ads into websites, apps, televisions, and other digital products with Google's Interactive Media Ads SDK. It uses VAST or VMAP, common formats that describe video-ad requests and schedules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Initializing the SDK, requesting client-side video ads, handling successful or failed loads, and coordinating ad playback with the surrounding content.
Why use it?
It explains the platform-specific setup and the sequence from requesting an ad to handling loading errors and playback events.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Initializing the SDK, requesting client-side video ads, handling successful or failed loads, and coordinating ad playback with the surrounding content.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hamzabellouch/agent-skills/ima-sdk-basics
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.

Any agent
npx skills add hamzabellouch/agent-skills --skill ima-sdk-basics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamzabellouch/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 541 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 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00077 $0.00541
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00270
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00054

Measured 10d ago against content hash d6043f8a8472, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ima-sdk-basics 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 10d 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

This is a copy

89% identical to ima-sdk-client-side — 15 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

AI API and Agent Platform/ima-sdk-basics/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

IMA SDK basics

The Google IMA SDK (Interactive Media Ads) lets you load in-stream video and audio ads into websites, apps, TVs and other digital platforms. Use an IMA SDK to request ads from any VAST-compliant ad server and manage ad playback.

Prerequisites

Before integrating the IMA SDK, you must read the platform-specific guide below to support all platforms that your app can support:


Quick start (general workflow)

  1. Import the SDK: Prerequisites, dependencies.
  2. Initialization: Early setup, Warmup, Settings Configuration, and Ad UI Setup.
  3. Ad Request: Creating and triggering the request, User gesture compliance.
  4. Ad Load Success/Failure: Handling the load event to get the AdsManager, or handling early fatal errors.
  5. Ad Playback Events: Listening to playback events via AdsManager to coordinate content play/pause, and handling non-fatal LOG events and fatal active playback errors.
  6. Cleanup: Properly destroying the AdsManager to release resources and prevent memory leaks.

For detailed, platform-specific implementation details, always refer to the guides in the Prerequisites section.

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 52 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A d6043f8a8472

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ima-sdk-basics is a skill published in the GitHub repository hamzabellouch/agent-skills (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 541 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to ima-sdk-client-side, differing in 15 lines, and is treated as a copy.