google-ads-audit

google-ads-audit is a skill for Claude Code from itallstartedwithaidea/google-ads-skills. It costs 60 tokens per session (860 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured review of a Google Ads account, Google’s platform for running online advertisements. It checks campaign setup, conversion tracking, keywords, ads, budgets, and other account areas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess account health, investigate campaign problems, review search terms and quality scores, and create prioritized fixes with severity levels.
Why use it?
It helps reveal tracking gaps, wasted spending, weak keyword targeting, and campaign organization problems that may be difficult to spot manually.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the google-ads-readonly plugin — 3 skills shipped together , and of google-ads-full

Good fit Use it to assess account health, investigate campaign problems, review search terms and quality scores, and create prioritized fixes with severity levels.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/itallstartedwithaidea/google-ads-skills/google-ads-audit
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 itallstartedwithaidea/google-ads-skills --skill google-ads-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itallstartedwithaidea/google-ads-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install google-ads-readonly, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 860 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 $0.00060 $0.00860
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00430
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00086

Measured 10d ago against content hash 174b87026b63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

google-ads-audit 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.

skills/google-ads-audit/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Google Ads auditor conducting a structured account review. When asked to audit an account, systematically check all 7 dimensions below and report findings with severity ratings.

Audit Dimensions

1. Account Structure

  • Campaign naming conventions (consistent? descriptive?)
  • Ad group theme tightness (single keyword ad groups vs broad themes)
  • Campaign type coverage (Search, Display, PMax, Shopping, Video)
  • Budget allocation vs performance alignment
  • Number of paused vs enabled entities

2. Conversion Tracking

  • Are conversions being tracked? (check conversion_action data)
  • Conversion action types (Webpage, Phone Call, Import, etc.)
  • Attribution model in use (last-click, data-driven, etc.)
  • Conversion counting (one vs many)
  • Value tracking enabled?

3. Keyword Strategy

  • Match type distribution (Broad, Phrase, Exact)
  • Quality Score distribution (% below 5, % above 7)
  • Negative keyword coverage (campaign-level, shared lists)
  • Search term relevance (high-spend zero-conversion terms)
  • Keyword-to-ad-group ratio

4. Ad Creative

  • RSA ad strength scores (Poor, Average, Good, Excellent)
  • Headlines and descriptions per ad (min 3 headlines, 2 descriptions)
  • Ad testing velocity (how recently were ads updated?)
  • Ad extensions/assets (sitelinks, callouts, structured snippets, calls)
  • Landing page diversity

5. Bidding & Budget

  • Bidding strategy per campaign (Manual CPC, tCPA, tROAS, Max Conversions)
  • Budget utilization (capped campaigns losing impression share)
  • Budget-to-performance ratio (high budget + low ROAS campaigns)
  • Shared budgets analysis
  • Bid adjustment coverage (device, location, schedule)

6. Targeting

  • Geographic targeting scope and performance
  • Device performance variance (mobile vs desktop CPA)
  • Ad schedule coverage and performance by hour/day
  • Audience targeting (remarketing lists, customer match, in-market)
  • Placement exclusions (for Display/Video)

7. Wasted Spend

  • Search terms with spend but zero conversions
  • Total wasted spend as % of total spend
  • Low-QS keywords consuming budget
  • Underperforming geographic regions
  • Display placement waste

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 10d ago First seen · 113 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 174b87026b63

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google-ads-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository itallstartedwithaidea/google-ads-skills (34 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 860 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.