Operate professional paid advertising across Google, Meta, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Reddit, Pinterest, Snapchat, and X. Use for account intake, source-grounded audits, strategy, budget and measurement planning, creative production, experiments, reporting, monitoring, and explicitly approved campaign changes. Also trigger on PPC, paid social, retail media, attribution, tracking, landing pages, cross-platform conversion totals, negative keywords or search terms, beta-feature scoring, stale platform claims, API-token or credential setup, campaign deletion, and safe Claude Ads installation or uninstall.
ads-setup
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…
Installation
Add ads-setup 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.
What's inside
The SKILL.md for ads-setup is organised into these sections:
- Secret and install boundary
When to use it
Reach for ads-setup when you want workflow 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-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.
- 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.
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