ugc-ads

ugc-ads is a skill for Claude Code from Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins. It costs 194 tokens per session (9,562 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for creating short, vertical user-generated-content ads: selfie-style product videos with spoken lines, jump cuts, captions, and category-specific beats.

In plain words
What is it for?
Making 15-second UGC ads for products, apps, food, beauty, fitness, and technology in supported video-generation providers.
Why use it?
It defines the video structure, supported formats, generation options, and cost checks needed for these ads.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the pika plugin — 20 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

not rated 40repo 1mo ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: pass 194 tokens original Apache-2.0

Good fit Making 15-second UGC ads for products, apps, food, beauty, fitness, and technology in supported video-generation providers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pika-labs/pika-plugins/ugc-ads
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 Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins --skill ugc-ads
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pika, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 194 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,562 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
  • Socket pass 4 May 2026
  • Snyk warn 4 May 2026
  • 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 $0.00194 $0.09562
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.04781
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.01912
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00956

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1d4526476ae5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ugc-ads 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/ugc-ads/SKILL.md · 443 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 443 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/pika:ugc-ads

Parameters

Param Default Notes
url required product URL — drives category detection and beat substitution
avatar_url built-in fallback persona portrait URL; fed as @Image1 reference. When omitted, the skill uses a pre-generated Pixar-style female creator portrait
provider seedance seedance: strong at UGC selfie / talking-head POV with native lip-sync, multi-segment in single prompt, supports 3:4. kling: explicit shots[], 9:16/16:9 only
aspect_ratio 9:16 3:4 is seedance-only (kling rejects 3:4)
variants unset Optional comma list for shared-generation exports. Supported: 9:16, 16:9, 1:1. Keeps the expensive UGC render shared, then reframes the final stage.
category auto HAUL / APP / FOOD / BEAUTY / FITNESS / TECH; auto-picked from URL
captions true TikTok-style word-chunked captions burned on top of the final video

Cost transparency gate

Before any paid MCP call, call identity_balance({verbose: true}) once. Surface the current balance, recent burn rate, and remaining runway, then gate the run with this exact message:

Estimated cost: about 4,000 credits (~$40) for a typical Seedance UGC ad with fallback/retry budget. This exceeds $5, so Reply proceed to continue or cancel to stop.

Do not call any paid MCP tool until the user replies proceed. If the user replies cancel, stop without generating. The gate runs after the product URL is known and before avatar analysis, screenshot capture, video generation, captions, or paid retries.

Runtime expectations

Typical end-to-end run: 6–12 minutes. Breakdown:

  • Step 1 (WebFetch) + Step 3 (capture_website screenshot): ~10–30s
  • Step 7 (generate_reference_video): ~3–5 min for seedance, ~5–7 min for kling
  • Step 7b/c (cartoonize + retry): adds ~1–2 min if seedance moderation rejects the avatar
  • Step 8 (deterministic brand/spec overlays): 1-2 edit_text_overlay calls, ~30s–5 min total
  • Step 9 (captions): single add_captions call, ~30s–5 min (transcribe + burn in one shot)

Read the full file on GitHub · 443 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 · 443 lines · 194 tokens per session scan A 1d4526476ae5

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ugc-ads is a skill published in the GitHub repository Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins (40 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 194 tokens to every session and 9,562 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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