find-iterations

A creative-iteration analysis that identifies strong advertising creatives, creatives losing effectiveness, and specific ideas for the next tests. A creative is an individual advertisement or ad concept.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find refresh opportunities, new hooks, format variations, audience changes, or follow-up briefs for existing ads.
Why use it?
It turns performance findings into concrete refresh ideas instead of leaving you to decide what to change. The suggestions are organized as briefing cards for production.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the motion-creative plugin — 17 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/motion-creative/motion-creative-plugin/find-iterations
Any agent
npx skills add Motion-Creative/motion-creative-plugin --skill find-iterations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Motion-Creative/motion-creative-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install motion-creative, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 1 MCP server.

Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,694 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 $0.00092 $0.02694
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01347
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00539
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00269

Measured 3d ago against content hash 87ffe19053de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

find-iterations 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 3d 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.

Plugin/skills/find-iterations/SKILL.md · 239 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Find Iteration Opportunities

Identify what's working, what's dying, and what specific iterations to test next. Every iteration card is specific enough to brief immediately.


Phase 0: Orient

  1. Acknowledge: "I'll identify what's fatiguing and suggest specific iterations to test."
  2. Ask if needed: "Any specific creatives you want to focus on, or should I scan everything and find the opportunities?"
  3. Connected workflow: After finding iterations, you can brief one (/build-brief), write hooks for it (/write-hooks), or analyze the original ad (/analyze-ad).

If the user already specified what they want to iterate on, skip questions.


Phase 1: Setup

1a. Parse Arguments

  • --datePreset: Analysis window. Default: LAST_30_DAYS.
  • --limit: Max creatives per metric. Default: 10.

1b. Load Context

  1. Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/motion-creative.config.md for primary KPI, brand guidelines, production constraints, competitors. If the file does not exist, use these defaults and suggest the user run /customize:
    • primary_kpi: use goalMetric from first get_creative_insights response
    • default_date_preset: LAST_30_DAYS
    • default_creative_limit: 10
    • priority_glossary_categories: use all
    • Brand guidelines + competitors: pull from Motion API
  2. Read ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/SKILL.md for methodology.
  3. Read ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/references/performance-metrics.md for metric interpretation.
  4. Read ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/references/concept-standards.md for quality bar.
  5. Read ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/creative-diversity.md for diversity audit methodology, exploitation vs exploration framework, and "What to Build Next" prioritization.
  6. Use default_date_preset from settings as the datePreset for all calls unless the user provided a --datePreset argument. Use default_creative_limit from settings as the limit unless the user provided a --limit argument.
  7. If settings specify priority_glossary_categories, prioritize those categories in taxonomy analysis and gap detection.

Read the full file on GitHub · 239 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago First seen · 239 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 87ffe19053de

Subscribe to this mod's changes

find-iterations is a skill published in the GitHub repository Motion-Creative/motion-creative-plugin (20 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 2,694 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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