meta-ads

meta-ads is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from YSY-99/meta-ads-api-field-guide. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,775 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A safety-focused guide for automating Meta ads through the API, the interface software uses to work with Meta's advertising system. Meta runs advertising on Facebook and Instagram.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, inspect, update, or troubleshoot campaigns, ad sets, ads, creatives, budgets, audience-event setups, and cross-account creative transfers.
Why use it?
It helps prevent common automation mistakes, such as using outdated fields, exceeding request limits, resetting campaigns during the learning phase, or activating new ads before review. Changes require confirmation, while reading data does not.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to create, inspect, update, or troubleshoot campaigns, ad sets, ads, creatives, budgets, audience-event setups, and cross-account creative transfers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ysy-99/meta-ads-api-field-guide/meta-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 YSY-99/meta-ads-api-field-guide --skill meta-ads
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YSY-99/meta-ads-api-field-guide

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,775 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 $0.00074 $0.01775
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00888
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00355
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00178

Measured 10d ago against content hash 74ac688f839e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

meta-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 10d 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.

.claude-template/skills/meta-ads/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Meta Ads — Production-Safe Automation Skill

This skill loads the operational discipline from the Meta Ads API Field Guide so Claude doesn't hallucinate deprecated fields, blow past rate limits, or accidentally trigger learning-phase resets.

When to use

Trigger this skill for ANY Meta Ads API work:

  • Creating campaigns, ad sets, ads, or creatives
  • Pulling insights / building reports
  • Scaling budgets / managing active campaigns
  • Debugging API errors (code 10, 17, 190, 1487225, etc.)
  • Cross-account creative transfers
  • CAPI / server-side event setup

Do NOT trigger for pure Ads Manager UI questions, CRO strategy, or non-API marketing advice.

Hard rules (never violate)

  1. PAUSED by default. Every campaign, ad set, and ad created via API must have status: "PAUSED". User activates manually after review. → Field Guide: Pre-Campaign Checklist

  2. Write operations require confirmation. Before any create/update/delete, show the user what will be written and wait for explicit approval. Read-only (get_*, list_*) is free.

  3. Attribution from donor, literally. When copying a campaign, copy attribution_spec exactly from the donor. Never "upgrade" 1d_click7d_click. → Pitfall 1

  4. Rate limit: stop on error, don't retry. On code 17, 613, or subcode 80004, read X-Business-Use-Case-Usage.estimated_time_to_regain_access and sleep. Do NOT retry immediately. → Rate Limits

  5. Cross-account = checklist first. Image hashes, page IDs, pixel IDs, audience IDs are all account-scoped. Never reuse across accounts without substitution. → Cross-Account Ops

  6. Incremental > rebuild. If > 50% of target objects already exist correctly, add the missing ones. Don't delete and recreate. → Pitfall 14

  7. Budget changes: max 4/hour per ad set, ≤ 20% increments. Error subcode 1487225 = budget change limit. > 20% = learning phase reset. → Budgets & Learning Phase

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 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. 10d ago First seen · 126 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 74ac688f839e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

meta-ads is a skill published in the GitHub repository YSY-99/meta-ads-api-field-guide (15 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,775 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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