paid-media-strategy

paid-media-strategy is a skill for Claude Code from rampstackco/claude-skills. It costs 142 tokens per session (4,664 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to planning advertising that you pay for on platforms such as Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, and TikTok. It covers where to spend, whom to target, how to bid, and how to judge results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a paid advertising plan, divide budgets between channels, decide whether to grow or stop campaigns, and review an existing advertising account.
Why use it?
It helps reduce wasted advertising spend caused by weak targeting, poorly chosen campaigns, automatic settings, or unreliable attribution. Attribution means connecting results such as sales or sign-ups to the ads that influenced them.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the rampstack-skills plugin — 103 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a paid advertising plan, divide budgets between channels, decide whether to grow or stop campaigns, and review an existing advertising account.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rampstackco/claude-skills/paid-media-strategy
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 rampstackco/claude-skills --skill paid-media-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rampstack-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 103 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,664 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 $0.00142 $0.04664
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.02332
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00933
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00466

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2bb4597636c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paid-media-strategy 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/paid-media-strategy/SKILL.md · 261 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 261 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

A senior performance marketer's playbook for running paid media that produces real outcomes.

The default state of paid media is wasted spend. Most accounts have campaigns running because they always have, audiences targeting because the rep suggested it, bid strategies on auto because manual is hard, creative not refreshed because there is no system. The cost compounds. A 20% efficiency gain on a $500K-per-year account is $100K back to the business. A 50% gain on a $5M-per-year account is $2.5M.

This skill is the discipline that produces those gains. It assumes you have a paid media platform (Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, or aggregators like Synter) connected. It assumes you have working analytics and conversion tracking. The hard part is the strategic discipline behind the spend, and that is what is here.

When to use this skill: any time you are designing a paid media plan, evaluating whether to scale or kill a campaign, allocating budget across channels, or auditing an existing account.


What this skill is for

This skill spans paid media strategy and operations. It does not cover ad creative production (use ads-creative-development), result interpretation in depth (use ads-performance-analytics), or platform-specific MCP tooling (consult each ad platform's official documentation for current MCP setup, auth, and example prompts).

The audience is a performance marketer (in-house or agency), a growth lead allocating spend across channels, or a founder making early paid budget decisions. The voice is tactical. There is no "evaluate every option yourself with no opinion." Paid media decisions have shape, and a senior practitioner can map a situation to a defensible plan in an afternoon.


Hypothesis discipline for paid spend

Most paid media failures start with a vague reason for spending. A real spend hypothesis has five parts: audience, offer, channel, outcome metric, and magnitude. Missing any of them and the campaign cannot be evaluated honestly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 261 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 8d ago First seen · 261 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A 2bb4597636c5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paid-media-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills (838 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 4,664 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-09-03.

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