Self-organizing AI second brain for Obsidian + Claude Code. Drop any source and Claude reads, links, and files it into one connected knowledge graph of plain Markdown you own. AI note-taking, personal knowledge management (PKM), and an open-source Notion alternative. Based on Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern.
ads-research
ads-research is an open-source productivity skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by AgriciDaniel. Its author describes it as: “Refresh Claude Ads platform, API, policy, regulation, benchmark, issue, pull-request, fork, and repository evidence. Use for ads research refresh, expired refresh_due dates, stale API or platform claims, reverify-or-d…”. The project has 8.2k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add AgriciDaniel/claude-ads`.
What ads-research does
1. Read the control-plane source, claim, capability, and publishing contracts. 2. Select the overdue or requested evidence slice and dispatch bounded research workers by independent platform or topic. 3. Prefer official and primary sources; record URL, publisher, publication and retrieval dates, supported claims, geography, availability, confidence, license, redistribution status, and refresh date. 4. Dispatch a separate source verifier for load-bearing claims. 5. Record contradictions and demote unsupported or stale claims. 6. Propose canonical updates with affected controls, skills, adapters…
Installation
Add ads-research to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add AgriciDaniel/claude-adsAlways review a skill's source before installing it. This command comes from the skill's public repository; the linked repo is the source of truth for exact setup steps.
When to use it
Reach for ads-research when you want productivity help from your agent without writing the same instructions every session. Load the skill and the agent picks it up automatically for relevant tasks.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt
- Ships in AgriciDaniel/claude-ads, an established project with 8,200 GitHub stars
- Actively maintained (recent commits)
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does ads-research do?
- Refresh Claude Ads platform, API, policy, regulation, benchmark, issue, pull-request, fork, and repository evidence. Use for ads research refresh, expired refresh_due dates, stale API or platform claims, reverify-or-demote decisions, release-current claim validation, ecosystem review, current platform changes, or updating paid-media knowledge. When tools or sources are unavailable, still demote the stale claim for the current run and block dependent release-current assertions before requesting access.
- How do I install ads-research?
- Run /plugin marketplace add AgriciDaniel/claude-ads in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-ads before installing.
- Is ads-research free to use?
- Yes. ads-research is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Where does ads-research come from?
- ads-research ships inside AgriciDaniel/claude-ads, a repository that contains 35 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 8,200 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.
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