paid-ads-optimize

paid-ads-optimize is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nowork-studio/notfair-plugin. It costs 54 tokens per session (414 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for checking paid advertising campaigns for wasted spend, uneven budget delivery, and weak results. It uses campaign data to suggest cautious changes to targeting, bids, budgets, or ad groups.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate poor cost per acquisition or return on ad spend, irrelevant searches or audiences, overspending, underspending, and decisions about scaling or moving budget.
Why use it?
It helps separate real performance problems from incomplete conversion tracking, small data samples, or landing-page failures. This reduces the risk of cutting campaigns based on misleading results.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: argument-hint in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the notfair plugin — 52 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate poor cost per acquisition or return on ad spend, irrelevant searches or audiences, overspending, underspending, and decisions about scaling or moving budget.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nowork-studio/notfair-plugin/paid-ads-optimize
About the project

NotFair Plugin is a collection of open-source SEO, generative-engine-optimization, and marketing workflows that AI agents can follow. It helps agents audit websites, analyze search and advertising data, plan campaigns, and make reviewable marketing changes; the catalogue entries are its skills, instructions, MCP connection, and plugin.

nowork-studio/notfair-plugin · 3,662 stars · on GitHub · notfair.co

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 nowork-studio/notfair-plugin --skill paid-ads-optimize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nowork-studio/notfair-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install notfair, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 52 skills, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 414 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00054 $0.00414
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00207
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00041

Measured 9d ago against content hash 93af4458502c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paid-ads-optimize 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 9d 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.

paid-ads/paid-ads-optimize/SKILL.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Read ../shared/operating-contract.md and ../shared/measurement-framework.md. Review before changing anything.

Diagnose before cutting

Verify the conversion signal, period completeness, spend volume, attribution model, and recent account changes. Spend with no recorded conversion can indicate broken tracking or immature data; treat it as a hypothesis until the signal and volume support an intervention. Check landing-page or operational failures before blaming targeting.

Classify the bottleneck as query/audience quality, creative fatigue, delivery/rank, budget constraint, landing-page mismatch, tracking, or economics. Use the specialized Google, Meta, X, or LinkedIn skill for live diagnosis. For other platforms, analyze only the supplied or verified data.

Rank reversible moves

Prefer this order: exclude an irrelevant query, placement, or audience; pause the narrowest losing unit; adjust budget or bid in a measured step; then consider structural change. For a reallocation, show the current and proposed allocations, the same total budget unless the user approves an increase, and the observable hypothesis.

Do not declare a loser from a few clicks. Set a threshold appropriate to the named target CPA, conversion lag, and channel role. Preserve upper-funnel and assisted-conversion context rather than judging all campaigns on last-click CPA alone.

Approval and follow-up

Present each exact mutation with scope, current value, proposed value, currency exposure, rationale, and review date. After approval, execute only through the verified platform skill or connector, read back the result, and record the intervention's expected effect and guardrail. Revisit after the declared observation window instead of promising a generic ongoing watch.

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. 9d ago First seen · 26 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 93af4458502c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paid-ads-optimize is a skill published in the GitHub repository nowork-studio/notfair-plugin (3,662 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 414 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.

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