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11 free skills · MIT

Paid ads skills for AI agents

Spend less to get more from Google, Meta and LinkedIn ads. Plan campaigns, audit an account, write creative and find the money you're wasting, with the checks a paid media specialist would run.

Free · Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor

All Paid ads skills

11 skills · most upvoted first
Paid ads

Ad creative

Write, test and refresh ad creative: angles, hooks, headlines, visuals and fatigue detection, from the brand profile.

670
Paid ads

Wasted ad spend finder

Find money spent on search terms, placements, audiences and ads that never convert, and the exact fixes.

648
Paid ads

Ad budget, bidding & forecasting

Allocate budget across channels, pick bid strategies, pace spend and forecast CPA and ROAS from real data.

646
Paid ads

Paid ads audit

Audit any ad account against a platform checklist: tracking, structure, targeting, creative, bidding and wasted spend.

617
Paid ads

Meta (Facebook & Instagram) ads

Meta ads that scale: Pixel and Conversions API, account structure, audiences, creative testing and frequency.

601
Paid ads

Ads monitoring & diagnostics

Daily checks and root-cause diagnosis: anomalies, CPA spikes, pacing, and splits by day, hour, device and location.

559
Paid ads

Competitor ad research

Study competitors' ads in public ad libraries: angles, offers, formats and landing pages, and the gaps to own.

558
Paid ads

Campaign setup & launch

Set up a campaign correctly the first time: naming, tracking, structure, guardrails and a launch checklist.

529
Paid ads

Google Ads

Run Google Ads well: Search, Performance Max and Shopping structure, search terms, negatives, Quality Score and extensions.

514
Paid ads

Paid ads strategy

Plan paid media: objectives, unit economics, channel choice, campaign architecture, audiences and the test plan.

513
Paid ads

LinkedIn ads

B2B LinkedIn ads: Insight Tag, audiences and ABM, lead gen forms, creative and budgets that do not burn out.

438
What you can do

An everyday job for every Paid ads skill

Paste a prompt into your agent. It picks the skill, asks for anything it needs and hands back the result. Words in a highlight are yours to change.

  1. 01

    Write ad creative

    Angles, hooks, headlines and visuals to test, and how to spot fatigue.

    Ask your agentWrite 10 Meta ad headlines for our spring sale.
    Uses Ad creative →
  2. 02

    Find wasted spend

    The search terms, placements and audiences that never convert, and what to cut.

    Ask your agentWhere am I wasting money in this search terms report?
    Uses Wasted ad spend finder →
  3. 03

    Audit your ad account

    Tracking, structure, targeting and creative checked against a platform checklist, with fixes ranked.

    Ask your agentAudit my Google Ads account and tell me what to fix first.
    Uses Paid ads audit →
  4. 04

    Plan a new campaign

    Objectives, budget, channel choice and campaign structure from your unit economics.

    Ask your agentPlan a £2,000 a month paid ads strategy for my online shop.
    Uses Paid ads strategy →
  5. 05

    Ad budget, bidding & forecasting

    Break-even and target table with formulas shown

    Ask your agentHow should I split my ad budget?
    Open the skill →
  6. 06

    Meta (Facebook & Instagram) ads

    A testing and scaling structure with budget split

    Ask your agentHelp me with Facebook ads
    Open the skill →
  7. 07

    Ads monitoring & diagnostics

    Anomaly list ranked by money at stake, each with likely cause and confidence

    Ask your agentWhy did our CPA jump?
    Open the skill →
  8. 08

    Competitor ad research

    Ad inventory per competitor: platform, format, angle, offer, CTA, landing page, first seen

    Ask your agentWhat ads are our competitors running?
    Open the skill →
  9. 09

    Campaign setup & launch

    A naming convention and UTM template

    Ask your agentHelp me launch this campaign
    Open the skill →
  10. 10

    Google Ads

    Account structure recommendation (brand, non-brand, competitor, remarketing, PMax, Shopping)

    Ask your agentHelp me with Google Ads
    Open the skill →
  11. 11

    LinkedIn ads

    Audience plan with sizes, splits and exclusions

    Ask your agentHelp me run LinkedIn ads
    Open the skill →
How to use them

Set up in a minute, then just ask

  1. 1Install all 11 Paid ads skills

    In Claude Code, run these two commands. Other agents: copy a skill's folder into their skills directory.

    /plugin marketplace add AI-Marketing-OS-LTD/cmo-so-skills/plugin install cmo-so-paid-ads@cmo-so
  2. 2Ask in plain words

    No special syntax. The agent reads each skill's description and picks the one that fits.

    “Write 10 Meta ad headlines for our spring sale.”
  3. 3Get finished work

    The agent asks what it needs, follows the skill's steps and checks, and hands back the result the skill promises.

Works with
  • Claude
  • ChatGPT
  • Codex
  • Cursor
  • Google Gemini
  • Windsurf
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Any agent that reads SKILL.md
FAQ

Questions about Paid ads skills

What they do, what they cost and how to use them with your agent.

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Can the agent change my ad account?

These skills work from exports, screenshots and what you paste in, and tell you exactly what to change and why. They don't log into Google, Meta or LinkedIn for you.

That keeps your budgets under your control: you make the changes, and the monitoring skill helps you check they worked.

Which ad platforms are covered?

Google Ads (Search, Performance Max and Shopping), Meta (Facebook and Instagram) and LinkedIn each have their own skill.

Strategy, budgeting and forecasting, ad creative, wasted-spend checks, daily monitoring, launch checklists and competitor ad research apply to any platform.

Are these Paid ads skills free?

Yes. All 11 are open source under the MIT licence, so you can use, change and share them, including for client work, without paying or asking permission.

Where a skill adapts someone else's open work, its page credits the source and the licence. Repos with a copyleft licence are only used for ideas, and repos with no licence aren't used at all.

Which AI agents can use them?

Claude Code installs them from the cmo.so marketplace. Any agent that reads SKILL.md folders, such as Codex or Cursor, can use them by copying the folder into its skills directory.

The core skills also work in Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP clients through the cmo.so MCP server, so you can use whichever assistant you already have.

How do I install all the Paid ads skills at once?

In Claude Code, add the marketplace with /plugin marketplace add AI-Marketing-OS-LTD/cmo-so-skills, then install the group with /plugin install cmo-so-paid-ads@cmo-so. That adds all 11 skills in one go.

Ask in plain words afterwards and the agent picks the skill that fits. For other agents, copy the folders of the skills you want from GitHub into the agent's skills directory.

Do I need a cmo.so account to use them?

No. The Paid ads skills work on their own with whatever your agent can already see and do: your files, the pages you share and the data you paste in.

A free cmo.so account only matters if you want Maggie to plan, write and publish for your website too. The core skills connect your agent to it, and every change is shown to you before it happens.

Do I need to write my own prompts?

No. Ask for the outcome you want in plain words and the agent picks the right skill, asks for anything it's missing and follows the skill's steps.

If you'd like a starting point, the section above lists an everyday job for every skill on this page with a prompt you can copy. Words in a highlight are the ones to change for your business.

How is a skill different from a prompt?

A prompt is one request. A skill is the method behind the job: the questions to ask first, the order of the steps, the quality checks and the format of the result.

That's what makes the answer reliable. The skill stops the agent skipping research, inventing numbers or handing back something you can't use, and you can read every step it will take.

Can I change a skill to fit my business?

Yes. A skill is a plain Markdown file, so you can edit its steps, add your own checks and examples, and keep your version in your own repo. The MIT licence allows it.

If your change would help others too, suggest it on the skills page or open a pull request on GitHub, and it may be folded into the library for everyone.

Is my data sent anywhere?

No. A skill only guides your own agent; your files, documents and data stay wherever your agent and its tools keep them.

cmo.so only sees what you connect to cmo.so, for example when you use the core skills through the MCP server with your account.

How do the skills stay up to date?

They're maintained in the public cmo-so-skills repo and synced to this site, so new and improved skills show up here as soon as they ship. In Claude Code, update the marketplace to pick them up.

Upvotes and downvotes show us which skills people rely on, and those are the first we improve.

What if no skill does what I need?

Suggest an open-source repo on the skills page: Maggie reads it, checks the licence and decides whether to add it as a new skill, use it to improve one, or put it to a vote.

You can also browse the other categories below; many jobs span more than one, and the agent can combine skills in a single request.

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