competitor-ad-research

competitor-ad-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from krusemediallc/cursor-ad-agent. It costs 122 tokens per session (2,114 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for researching competitors' advertisements in Meta Ad Library, a public library of ads running on Meta platforms. It collects ad text and delivery details, and can save image or video creatives for analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build a Markdown research brief containing competitor ad copy, metadata, downloaded creatives when requested, adaptation rankings, and notes for later ad creation.
Why use it?
It keeps competitor research traceable by requiring exact page identification, preserving the returned copy, and deduplicating ads by their library IDs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to build a Markdown research brief containing competitor ad copy, metadata, downloaded creatives when requested, adaptation rankings, and notes for later ad creation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/krusemediallc/cursor-ad-agent/competitor-ad-research
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 krusemediallc/cursor-ad-agent --skill competitor-ad-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/krusemediallc/cursor-ad-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,114 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 $0.00122 $0.02114
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.01057
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00423
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00211

Measured 12d ago against content hash 319d10c352e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitor-ad-research 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/_common.py, scripts/extract_creatives.py, scripts/rank_competitors.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/competitor-ad-research/SKILL.md · 232 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 232 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitor ad research

Run a portable, auditable competitor workflow:

  1. Resolve exact Meta page identities.
  2. Pull all copy variants and useful delivery metadata.
  3. Optionally extract/download image and video creatives.
  4. Rank adaptation leverage from observable metadata.
  5. Optionally merge visual annotations backed by a local file.
  6. Write BRIEF.md with local clone-skill handoffs.

Read reference.md for the data contract, page-confidence policy, fields, and score formula. Read annotations.md before creating annotations.

Hard rules

  1. Never guess a page. Accept a numeric ID, Label=ID, a successful direct Facebook handle lookup, or one unique exact normalized Ad Library page-name match. If resolution is ambiguous or merely similar, stop for that page and ask for its numeric ID.
  2. Keep credentials in .env. Use META_ACCESS_TOKEN; never pass it on the command line, print it, or persist token-bearing snapshot URLs.
  3. Deduplicate by Ad Library ID. Do not dedupe by copy, page, date, or creative URL.
  4. Preserve full copy. Keep every returned body, headline, description, and link-caption string without truncation.
  5. Call longevity a proxy, never performance. Commercial Ad Library longevity does not prove spend, conversions, ROAS, profitability, or a winning ad.
  6. Do not fabricate motifs. Name a motif only after visually inspecting the exact local creative. Every motif annotation needs observed_from plus concrete visible evidence; the ranker enforces this.
  7. Handoff local files only. Remote CDN or snapshot URLs are not clone inputs. Download first, then use paths emitted in BRIEF.md.
  8. Keep this workflow research-only. Do not generate or publish an ad until the user selects a source and separately invokes the relevant clone skill.
  9. Write only beneath outputs/competitor-research/<run>/.

Preflight

From the repository root:

python3 --version
python3 -m pip install -r skills/competitor-ad-research/requirements.txt

Read the full file on GitHub · 232 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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. 12d ago First seen · 232 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 319d10c352e9

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competitor-ad-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository krusemediallc/cursor-ad-agent (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 2,114 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 2026-08-31.

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