Overview
ads-setup is an open-source workflow skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by AgriciDaniel. Its author describes it as: “Set up a paid-media client, brand, account, data-source, privacy, and mutation-guardrail profile for Claude Ads. Use for onboarding, initial configuration, brand DNA, API tokens or credential profiles, environment-var…”. 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-setup does
1. Read the main `ads` contract. 2. Collect business model, offer, geography, regulated categories, objective, conversion taxonomy, economics, active platforms, account IDs, date/time conventions, and reporting audience. 3. Record data-source type and whether required credentials are present, but never store credential values, cookies, tokens, customer lists, or raw exports. 4. Create and validate `data-lifecycle.json` before persisting the setup profile. Declare classification; explicit minimum retention and purpose-bound deletion deadline or documented exception; verified at-rest/in-transit…
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for ads-setup is organised into these sections:
- Secret and install boundary
Installation
Add ads-setup to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add AgriciDaniel/claude-adsReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — ships a claude code plugin marketplace
License
ads-setup is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in AgriciDaniel/claude-ads, an established project with 8,200 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 90 days
Author
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does ads-setup do?
- Set up a paid-media client, brand, account, data-source, privacy, and mutation-guardrail profile for Claude Ads. Use for onboarding, initial configuration, brand DNA, API tokens or credential profiles, environment-variable or keychain setup, connecting exports or read adapters, safe native or verified-local installation, curl-pipe-bash install requests, declaring KPIs, or preparing a new advertising project.
- How do I install ads-setup?
- 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-setup free to use?
- Yes. ads-setup is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does ads-setup work with?
- ads-setup lists Claude Code — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does ads-setup come from?
- ads-setup 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.