meta-ads-operating-system

meta-ads-operating-system is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from swan-gtm/gtm-skills. It costs 42 tokens per session (6,337 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision guide for operating Facebook and Instagram ad accounts that sell software to businesses. It bases actions such as pausing, scaling, and replacing ads on qualified leads rather than every form submission.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set targets, decide when to pause or increase ad budgets, classify ads, and choose how many new creatives to make.
Why use it?
Meta can optimise for cheap forms even when those forms come from people who are unlikely to buy. This guide adds a quality check using a target cost for a qualified lead.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to set targets, decide when to pause or increase ad budgets, classify ads, and choose how many new creatives to make.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/swan-gtm/gtm-skills/meta-ads-operating-system
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add swan-gtm/gtm-skills --skill meta-ads-operating-system
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 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,337 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Memory Poisoning · line 258
    Skill manipulates agent memory, state, or stored context. Memory corruption can alter personality, override safety rules, or cause unpredictable behavior.
    Fix: Protect agent memory and state from modification by untrusted content. Use read-only memory for critical instructions and validate all state changes.
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 $0.00042 $0.06337
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.03168
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.01267
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00634

Measured 9d ago against content hash 513bb88a96f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

meta-ads-operating-system 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/meta-ads-operating-system/SKILL.md · 469 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 469 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Meta Ads Operating System - B2B SaaS

The single decision framework for running Meta ad accounts for B2B SaaS. Every decision - when to swap an ad, when to graduate it, when to scale budget, how many creatives to produce - flows from this system.

This file drives all operational decisions. Other knowledge-base files provide deeper context on specific topics. When in doubt, follow this OS.


Core Principle

Meta's algorithm is excellent at optimizing delivery (getting people to click and submit forms). But it cannot see lead quality. In B2B, a large percentage of form submissions come from people outside the ICP. The algorithm treats all leads as equal. Our job is to add the quality layer Meta cannot see, and make every decision based on qualified leads - not raw form fills.


1. Set the Target

Every formula depends on one number: TCPL (Target Cost Per Lead) = target cost per qualified lead. All thresholds are derived from TCPL. Without TCPL, you cannot run the Decision Tree, classify ads, or make scaling decisions. Establishing TCPL is always Step 1.

Scenario A: You have a target cost per demo (ideal)

TCPL = Target Cost per Demo x QL-to-Demo Rate

Example: Target cost per demo = EUR 2,000. QL-to-demo rate = 28%. TCPL = EUR 2,000 x 0.28 = EUR 560.

This is the strongest TCPL because it connects ad spend directly to a business outcome. Always pursue this number. If you know your target cost per demo but not the QL-to-demo rate, establishing that rate becomes the first measurement priority.

Scenario B: No target provided, but account has historical data

TCPL = 30-day trailing CPL(QL) x 0.80
Timeline: achieve TCPL within 30 days of engagement start

Logic: The 30-day trailing average represents current performance including waste. A 20% reduction is achievable through operational improvements (cutting zero-QL ads, graduating winners, improving creative mix) without structural changes like new audiences or conversion architecture. It is a realistic first target.

Read the full file on GitHub · 469 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 · 469 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 513bb88a96f6

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meta-ads-operating-system is a skill published in the GitHub repository swan-gtm/gtm-skills (153 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 6,337 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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