skill-161-automation-layering-strategy-audit

skill-161-automation-layering-strategy-audit is a skill for Claude Code from TrueClicks/claude-plugins. It costs 30 tokens per session (665 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An audit of how Google Ads automation is combined with manual safeguards such as scripts, rules, budgets, and monitoring. It reviews Smart Bidding, Performance Max, broad match, and related account controls.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect bidding strategies, automated rules, scripts, connected tools, and the documented review schedule.
Why use it?
It helps find campaigns that rely on automation without enough oversight to catch overspending, missed opportunities, or gradual performance changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the google-ads plugin — 145 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect bidding strategies, automated rules, scripts, connected tools, and the documented review schedule.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/trueclicks/claude-plugins/skill-161-automation-layering-strategy-audit
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add TrueClicks/claude-plugins --skill skill-161-automation-layering-strategy-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TrueClicks/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install google-ads, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 145 skills, 4 commands.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 665 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 $0.00030 $0.00665
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00266
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00067

Measured 21d ago against content hash 3e2ddd428bf0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-161-automation-layering-strategy-audit 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 21d 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.

plugins/google-ads/skills/skill-161-automation-layering-strategy-audit/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill 161: Automation Layering Strategy Audit

Purpose

Assess whether Google automation (Smart Bidding, PMax, broad match) is supplemented with appropriate guardrails. Pure automation without oversight leads to runaway spend, missed opportunities, or gradual performance drift. Layered control provides the best balance of AI efficiency and strategic governance.

Data Requirements

Data Source: Standard + Account Configuration Review

Standard Data:

  • data/account/campaigns/*/campaign.md - Bid strategies, automation settings
  • data/account/bidding_strategies.md - Portfolio strategies

Additional Review Required:

  • Automated rules configuration (Google Ads UI)
  • Scripts deployed in account
  • Third-party tools connected
  • Review/monitoring cadence documentation

Reference GAQL:

SELECT
  campaign.name,
  campaign.bidding_strategy_type,
  campaign.status
FROM campaign
WHERE campaign.status = 'ENABLED'

Use /google-ads:get-custom if you need to check specific automation configurations.

Analysis Steps

  1. Inventory automation: Document Smart Bidding strategies, PMax campaigns, broad match usage
  2. Evaluate guardrail coverage: Check for budget pacing rules, spend anomaly alerts, auto-pause rules
  3. Assess script coverage: Identify deployed scripts (budget pacing, n-gram analysis, anomaly detection)
  4. Review monitoring frequency: Verify alert configuration, dashboard review schedule, escalation procedures
  5. Identify conflicts: Check for competing automation or over-automation issues

Thresholds

Condition Severity
Smart Bidding with no budget protection rules Critical
No anomaly detection (spend spike/drop alerts) Critical
No script for search term/n-gram automation Warning
Automated rules not running (check execution logs) Warning
Weekly human review not documented Warning
Scripts duplicating functionality Info

Output

Short format (default):

## Automation Layering Audit
**Account:** [Name] | **Automation coverage:** [X]% | **Guardrail gaps:** [Y]

### Critical ([Count])
- **Budget protection**: No rules configured -> Add spend alert at 80% daily budget
- **Anomaly detection**: Missing -> Configure CPA spike alerts

### Warnings ([Count])
- **Search term automation**: No n-gram script -> Deploy to catch waste between reviews

### Automation Inventory
| Layer | Coverage | Status |
|-------|----------|--------|
| Google Auto | X% | Good/Needs work |
| Rules/Alerts | X% | Good/Needs work |
| Scripts | X% | Good/Needs work |
| Human Review | X% | Good/Needs work |

### Recommendations
1. Deploy [script/rule] for [purpose]

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 21d ago First seen · 86 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 3e2ddd428bf0

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skill-161-automation-layering-strategy-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository TrueClicks/claude-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 665 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-08.

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