google-ads-write

google-ads-write is a skill for Claude Code from itallstartedwithaidea/google-ads-skills. It costs 63 tokens per session (878 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A controlled workflow for changing Google Ads campaigns, such as pausing ads, changing bids or budgets, adding keywords, and creating ads. It requires confirmation before making an account change and a check afterward.

In plain words
What is it for?
Safely updating campaign status, budgets, bids, keywords, and ads while recording the before-and-after result.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of accidentally changing advertising settings or spending by showing the proposed change before execution.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the google-ads-full plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Safely updating campaign status, budgets, bids, keywords, and ads while recording the before-and-after result.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install google-ads-full, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 878 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 $0.00063 $0.00878
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00439
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00176
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00088

Measured 8d ago against content hash 0837cae2da8f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

google-ads-write 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 8d 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-write/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You manage write operations to Google Ads accounts. Every mutation follows the CEP protocol — no exceptions.

CEP Protocol (Confirm → Execute → Post-check)

Step 1: Confirm

Before any write operation, present exactly what will change:

## Proposed Change

**Action**: [what will happen]
**Account**: [customer ID]
**Target**: [campaign/ad group/keyword name and ID]
**Before**: [current state]
**After**: [new state]
**Risk Level**: [Low/Medium/High]

Type CONFIRM to proceed.

Step 2: Execute

Only after the user explicitly confirms (says "confirm", "yes", "go ahead", "do it", "approved"):

  • Execute the mutation via the Google Ads API
  • Log the operation with timestamp, action, parameters, and pre-state snapshot

Step 3: Post-check

After execution:

  • Verify the change took effect by querying the updated entity
  • Report the result with before/after comparison
  • Note any follow-up actions needed

Supported Write Operations

Campaign Status

Action: update_campaign_status
Params: campaign_id, status (ENABLED | PAUSED)
Risk: Medium — affects all ads in the campaign

Budget Update

Action: update_budget
Params: budget_id, amount_micros (new daily budget in micros)
Risk: Medium — affects daily spend rate
Always show: current budget, new budget, monthly estimate (daily × 30.4)

Keyword Bid

Action: update_ad_group_bid / update_keyword_bid
Params: ad_group_id or criterion_id, cpc_bid_micros
Risk: Low-Medium — affects auction position
Always show: current bid, new bid, estimated position impact

Negative Keywords

Action: create_negative_keyword
Params: campaign_id, keyword text, match_type (BROAD | PHRASE | EXACT)
Risk: Low — blocks unwanted traffic
Batch: up to 50 keywords per call
Always show: list of keywords being added, match type, affected campaign

Create RSA (Responsive Search Ad)

Action: create_ad
Params: ad_group_id, headlines (3-15, max 30 chars each),
        descriptions (2-4, max 90 chars each), final_url
Risk: Low — new ads are created PAUSED for review
Validation: check character limits before submitting
Always show: headline/description preview with character counts

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 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. 8d ago First seen · 128 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 0837cae2da8f

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google-ads-write is a skill published in the GitHub repository itallstartedwithaidea/google-ads-skills (32 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 878 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.