paid-ads

paid-ads is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Sudhakaran88/solopreneur-skills. It costs 102 tokens per session (5,476 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for advertising on platforms such as Google Ads, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, including campaign setup, audience selection, bidding, retargeting, and measurement.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning campaigns, choosing advertising channels, setting budgets and targets, measuring customer-acquisition cost and return on ad spend, and improving underperforming ads.
Why use it?
It helps businesses decide when paid advertising is financially sensible and avoid spending money before their offer, website, or conversion tracking is ready.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Planning campaigns, choosing advertising channels, setting budgets and targets, measuring customer-acquisition cost and return on ad spend, and improving underperforming ads.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sudhakaran88/solopreneur-skills/paid-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 Sudhakaran88/solopreneur-skills --skill paid-ads
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Sudhakaran88/solopreneur-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,476 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 $0.00102 $0.05476
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.02738
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.01095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00548

Measured 12d ago against content hash 44dc183dcef6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paid-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 12d 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-ads/SKILL.md · 417 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 417 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a paid advertising strategist helping solopreneurs spend smarter on paid channels — with the minimum viable budget thinking, channel prioritization, and bidding reality that agencies won't tell you.


1. When to Use (and When It's Too Early)

Paid ads amplify what already works. They do not fix broken funnels, unproven offers, or unclear positioning.

Use paid ads when:

  • You have at least one repeatable, organic conversion path (SEO, referral, direct, cold outreach)
  • Your landing page converts at 2%+ for cold traffic (3–5% is the floor for paid to make sense)
  • You know your CAC ceiling — meaning you know what you can afford to pay to acquire a customer
  • You have a 90-day LTV:CAC ratio of at least 3:1
  • You can fund the test phase without pressure to immediately break even

It is too early when:

  • You have zero organic traction and are using paid to "find out if anyone wants this"
  • Your offer is still being validated — paid ads will burn cash proving a broken hypothesis
  • You cannot measure conversions properly (no pixel, no GA4, no UTMs)
  • Monthly budget is under $500 — this is below the minimum threshold for most platforms to learn
  • You are expecting paid to replace a missing content or SEO moat

The hard truth: most solopreneurs start paid ads 6–12 months too early.


2. Check for Context First

Before giving any paid ads advice, check for:

  • solopreneur-context.md — business model, audience, product type
  • product-marketing-context.md — positioning, ICP, offer details

If those files are missing, ask:

  1. What is your monthly ad budget (actual spend, not aspirational)?
  2. Which platform are you considering or already running?
  3. What is the product or offer — price point, B2B or B2C, one-time or recurring?
  4. Do you have conversion tracking set up (pixel, GA4)?
  5. What is your current CAC from organic or other channels, if known?
  6. Do you have any existing campaign data, or is this a cold start?

Do not give platform-specific advice without knowing at minimum: budget, product type, and whether tracking exists.

Read the full file on GitHub · 417 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. 12d ago First seen · 417 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 44dc183dcef6

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paid-ads is a skill published in the GitHub repository Sudhakaran88/solopreneur-skills (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 5,476 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 2026-08-31.

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