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Ad creative skill

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

Free · MIT licence · Copy needs a free sign-in

Category
Paid ads
Works with
Claude, Codex, Cursor, any agent
Format
SKILL.md · 1,696 words
Version
v0.2.0
Price
Free · MIT

The Ad creative skill file

cmo-ad-creative/SKILL.md1,696 words · MIT
---
name: cmo-ad-creative
description: Write, test and refresh ad creative: angles, hooks, headlines, visuals and fatigue detection, from the brand profile.
---

Produce ad creative that is grounded in what the business really offers and what its customers really say, then test and refresh it from performance data. Maggie starts from the CMO.so business profile, builds distinct angles rather than rewordings, writes within each platform's limits, and spots fatigue before results collapse.

When to use

  • New ads for Google, Meta, LinkedIn or TikTok; RSA headlines and descriptions; primary text; video scripts and static ad briefs.
  • "Our ads are tired", "iterate on winners", "what should we test next", "are these ads fatigued?".
  • Not for: campaign structure, targeting or budgets (cmo-ads-strategy, cmo-meta-ads, cmo-google-ads), landing page copy (cmo-copywriting), designing and reading the split test (cmo-ab-testing), studying competitors' ads (cmo-ads-competitor-research) or producing the images (cmo-image-generation).
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Adapts open work by alirezarezvani/claude-skills (MIT), AgriciDaniel/claude-ads (MIT), AgriciDaniel/claude-ads (MIT), irinabuht12-oss/marketing-skills (none), irinabuht12-oss/marketing-skills (none), AgriciDaniel/claude-ads (MIT), borghei/Claude-Skills (MIT + Commons Clause).

Everyday usage

How people use Ad creative day to day

Ask in plain words. The agent picks this skill, asks for anything it needs and hands back the result. Words in a highlight are yours to change.

Most common · also on the Paid ads page

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.
  • An angle and hook matrix tied to customer segments and evidence
  • Platform-ready copy with character counts, plus visual or video briefs
  • A test plan and an iteration log; a fatigue table when performance data is given

More things to ask

  • Write me some ads
  • Give me 15 RSA headlines
  • New Facebook ad copy, ours is tired
  • What angles should we test?
  • Iterate on our best performing ads
  • Write a 30-second TikTok ad script
How it works

From input to output

  1. 1You give it
    • The business profile from CMO.so (`brand_get`): offer, customers, selling points, CTAs, testimonials
    • Platform, format and funnel stage; the landing page each ad points to
    • Ad performance export if iterating (by ad: spend, CTR, conversion rate, cost per result, frequency)
    • Real customer language: reviews, sales-call notes, ad comments
  2. 2It works through the method
    • Asks what's missing, one question at a time
    • Follows the workflow step by step
    • Checks the result against its quality bar and guardrails
  3. 3You get
    • An angle and hook matrix tied to customer segments and evidence
    • Platform-ready copy with character counts, plus visual or video briefs
    • A test plan and an iteration log; a fatigue table when performance data is given
Why a skill

The skill against the alternatives

Do it yourselfHire helpAd creative skill
CostYour own timeAgency or freelancer feesFree, MIT licence
Time to a first resultHours, every timeDays to weeks, plus revisionsMinutes, in your agent
ConsistencyDepends on remembering every stepAs long as the retainer lastsSame steps and checks every run
The methodIn your headTheir process, often hiddenWritten down: read it, change it
Who does the workYou, from scratchSomeone learning your businessYour agent, following the skill
FAQ

Questions about the Ad creative skill

What it does, what it needs and how to use it with your agent.

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What is the Ad creative skill?

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

It's one of cmo.so's open Paid ads skills: a SKILL.md file that tells an AI agent when to use it, what to ask you first, the steps to follow, the checks to pass and what to hand back, so the job is done the same careful way every time.

When should I use it?

Reach for it when you'd otherwise say something like “Write me some ads”, “Give me 15 RSA headlines”, “New Facebook ad copy, ours is tired”. Your agent reads the skill's description and picks it for requests like these, so you don't need to name it.

If a request is close but not quite right, the skill says so and points to the related skill that fits better, instead of forcing a poor answer.

What do I need to give it?

It works best with the business profile from CMO.so (`brand_get`): offer, customers, selling points, CTAs, testimonials; platform, format and funnel stage; the landing page each ad points to; ad performance export if iterating (by ad: spend, CTR, conversion rate, cost per result, frequency); and real customer language: reviews, sales-call notes, ad comments.

You don't have to prepare everything up front. The skill asks for missing pieces one at a time and says plainly when it's working from an assumption instead of your data.

What do I get back?

You get an angle and hook matrix tied to customer segments and evidence; platform-ready copy with character counts, plus visual or video briefs; and a test plan and an iteration log; a fatigue table when performance data is given.

Every result comes from a written method with a quality bar, so numbers name their source, claims are checked and the output is ready to use or share rather than a rough draft.

Is it free?

Yes. The skill is open source under the MIT licence, so you can use it, change it and share it, including for client work.

Seeing, copying and downloading the whole file on cmo.so needs a free sign-in. Copying also upvotes and saves it, so you can find it again under Saved on the skills page.

Which AI agents can use it?

Claude Code installs it from the cmo.so marketplace. Any agent that reads SKILL.md folders, such as Codex or Cursor, can use it once the folder is in its skills directory.

You can also paste the copied skill into ChatGPT, Claude or any assistant at the start of a conversation and ask it to follow the skill.

How do I install it?

In Claude Code, run /plugin marketplace add AI-Marketing-OS-LTD/cmo-so-skills, then /plugin install cmo-so-paid-ads@cmo-so. That installs this skill together with the rest of the Paid ads group.

For other agents, sign in, press Copy or Download above and put the file in your agent's skills folder as SKILL.md inside a folder named after the skill.

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

No. The skill works on its own with whatever your agent can already see and do: your files, the pages you share and the data you paste in.

With cmo.so connected it can go further, using tools such as brand_get, testimonials_change, testimonial_upsert through the MCP server. Every change is previewed and confirmed before it happens.

Which skills work well with it?

It pairs well with Marketing images; and A/B testing & experiments. The agent can hand over from one to the next in the same conversation, for example research first, then the plan, then the writing.

Each of them has its own page with what it needs and what it returns, linked below.

Can I change it to fit my business?

Yes. It's a plain Markdown file, so you can edit the 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.

Where does the method come from?

It's written by cmo.so and adapts open work by others, credited on this page: alirezarezvani/claude-skills (MIT); AgriciDaniel/claude-ads (MIT); and AgriciDaniel/claude-ads (MIT).

Only permissively licensed work is adapted; copyleft repos are used for ideas only and repos without a licence aren't used at all.

Is my data sent to cmo.so when the agent uses it?

No. The 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. Your votes and saves on this page are stored against your cmo.so sign-in.

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