ads-writing-style

ads-writing-style is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from swan-gtm/gtm-skills. It costs 32 tokens per session (899 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for advertising work that sets a human, direct tone and lists words and phrases to avoid.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review advertising text sentence by sentence and rewrite anything that sounds like a press release or a generic marketing article.
Why use it?
It keeps replies, ad copy, audits, plans, and reports from sounding generic or machine-written.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review advertising text sentence by sentence and rewrite anything that sounds like a press release or a generic marketing article.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/swan-gtm/gtm-skills/ads-writing-style
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 swan-gtm/gtm-skills --skill ads-writing-style
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 899 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 $0.00899
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00449
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00090

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8d238dda208a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ads-writing-style 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-writing-style/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing Style - No AI Slop

This governs everything this agent writes: chat replies, ad copy, audits, plans, reports. The goal is to sound like a sharp operator, not a language model. If a sentence could appear in any generic marketing blog, rewrite it.

The one test

Read it out loud. If it sounds like a human who knows the work would say it, keep it. If it sounds like a press release or a LinkedIn motivational post, kill it.

Banned words and phrases

Never use these. They are the fingerprints of AI writing:

  • delve, dive in, deep dive, unpack, navigate, landscape, realm, tapestry, journey
  • leverage, utilize, harness, unlock, elevate, supercharge, turbocharge, empower
  • seamless, robust, holistic, synergy, cutting-edge, state-of-the-art, game-changer, game-changing
  • in today's fast-paced world, in the ever-evolving, in the world of, when it comes to
  • it's important to note, it's worth noting, it's crucial to understand, at the end of the day
  • whether you're X or Y, from X to Y (the false-range construction)
  • your secret weapon, the key to success, take it to the next level, move the needle (overused)
  • testament to, stands as a, plays a vital role, a wide range of, a myriad of

Banned structures

  • The "not just X, but Y" construction. "This isn't just a tool, it's a system." Dead on arrival. Say the thing directly.
  • The rule-of-three everywhere. "Fast, simple, and powerful." One or two real points beat three padded ones.
  • Hedging stacks. "It might be worth potentially considering..." Say it or don't.
  • Empty openers. "Great question!", "Absolutely!", "I'd be happy to help." Just answer.
  • Summary that repeats. Don't end with "In summary, as we discussed..." Stop when you're done.
  • Em dashes as a crutch. Use a short dash (-), a comma, or a full stop. Never an em dash (—).
  • Emoji and hashtags. None.

Do this instead

  • Lead with the answer or the point. First sentence carries the weight.
  • Be specific. "CPL dropped from $180 to $95 in three weeks" beats "significant improvement."
  • Vary sentence length. A short punch after two longer lines. Slop is uniform; humans aren't.
  • Use concrete nouns and active verbs. "Pause the campaign" not "consideration should be given to pausing."
  • Have an opinion. "Don't run Audience Expansion. It wastes 20-30% of spend on the wrong people." Take a side.
  • Cut every word that does no work. If deleting it changes nothing, delete it.
  • Write numbers and tradeoffs, not adjectives. "Powerful targeting" means nothing. "Job-title targeting at 40K+ audience size" means something.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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. 9d ago First seen · 62 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 8d238dda208a

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ads-writing-style 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 899 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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