ads-campaign-planning

ads-campaign-planning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from swan-gtm/gtm-skills. It costs 32 tokens per session (416 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to planning a paid advertising campaign before launch, including its objective, budget, audience, locations, creative, copy, and measurement.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define campaign naming, choose channels and budgets, set locations and targeting, plan creative and copy, and prepare execution.
Why use it?
It prevents campaigns from starting with unclear goals, inconsistent names, missing targeting decisions, or no agreed way to measure results.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to define campaign naming, choose channels and budgets, set locations and targeting, plan creative and copy, and prepare execution.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/swan-gtm/gtm-skills/ads-campaign-planning
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add swan-gtm/gtm-skills --skill ads-campaign-planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swan-gtm/gtm-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 416 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 $0.00032 $0.00416
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00208
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00042

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9ecb11e0ff3c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ads-campaign-planning 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.

skills/ivan-falco/ads-campaign-planning/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Campaign Planning & Execution

"Prepare to plan or plan to fail." Taking the time to map out campaigns before launching makes execution 10x easier.

4 Essential Elements of Any Campaign Plan

  1. Campaign Names & Objectives: How you'll name campaigns (naming convention) and their purpose. How you name campaigns dramatically affects your ability to report in the future. Follow a consistent naming convention.

  2. Channels & Budget: How much budget is available and which channels to invest in.

  3. Locations & Targeting: What locations you're focusing on and how you'll target your ideal customer (reference the ad persona document).

  4. Creative & Copy: How you'll design creative and write messaging that resonates.

There are nuances by channel (e.g., Google = keywords, LinkedIn = audiences) but the overall process is the same.

Naming Convention Best Practice

Use the 5-Stage Demand Engine to inform your naming convention. Structure: [Region][Stage][Awareness][Objective][Persona]

Example: NA_Capture_SolutionAware_Prospecting_ProductManagers

Execution Options

Option 1 - DIY

  • Use bulk import options and power editors (e.g., Google Ads Editor) for launching 10+ campaigns
  • Campaign plan templates can be formatted for bulk import into LinkedIn and Google Ads

Option 2 - Outsource

  • If you have money but not time, outsource to an internal performance marketing resource or hire an agency/contractor
  • Start by asking your network for referrals before using freelancing sites like Upwork or MarketerHire

Key Takeaway

Keep your plans simple and repeatable. Regardless of how well-thought-out a plan is, it doesn't mean anything until it's actually launched.

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 · 45 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 9ecb11e0ff3c

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ads-campaign-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository swan-gtm/gtm-skills (153 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 416 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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