Pp Meta Ads

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Meta Ads — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the meta-ads-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:

1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows:

   npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install meta-ads --cli-only

2. Verify: meta-ads-pp-cli --version
3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill.

If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead:

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/marketing/meta-ads/cmd/meta-ads-pp-cli@latest

If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds.

When to Use This CLI

Use this CLI when you need creative-fatigue diagnostics, audience overlap cartography, learning-phase forensics, or attribution drift detection across Meta ad accounts. Best when paired with a daily sync into the local store so trend queries are instant. Read-only by design — never used to modify campaigns, budgets, or audiences.

Anti-triggers

Do not use this CLI for:

• Do not use this CLI to create, pause, modify, or delete campaigns, adsets, ads, audiences, or creatives — it is read-only.
• Do not use this CLI for budget management or bid-strategy changes — that is what Meta Ads Manager or facebook-business-sdk are for.
• Do not use this CLI for write-side audience uploads — custom audience creation from customer files is out of scope.

Unique Capabilities

These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.

Local state that compounds

• fatigue — Detect ads whose CPM is drifting up, frequency is climbing, and CTR is falling across a configurable window.

  Use this to decide which ads to retire. Spending on a fatigued creative is the highest-leverage waste in any account.

  meta-ads-pp-cli fatigue --campaign 23847265 --window 14d --agent

• decay — Compare a creative's first-impression CTR against its current CTR, with projected dead-date.

  Use for retire/refresh decisions on a single creative. The slope and projected dead-date are the deciding factor.

  meta-ads-pp-cli decay --creative-id 120208734567 --agent

• overlap — Pairwise overlap percentages across custom audiences, with cannibalization recommendations.

  Use when ad strategy is mature and ROAS feels diluted across similar audiences. Surfaces consolidate-or-exclude decisions.

  meta-ads-pp-cli overlap --audience 23847001 --audience 23847002 --audience 23847003 --agent

• learning — Surface adsets stuck in algorithmic learning >N days with root-cause hint (budget too low, audience too narrow, events too sparse).

  Use when ROAS collapses across multiple adsets simultaneously. Stuck-in-learning adsets eat budget without optimizing.

  meta-ads-pp-cli learning --account act_4327210487520472 --min-days 7 --agent

Forensic queries

• reconcile — Per-day diff between Meta-reported account spend and sum-of-insights spend; flags days where attribution drift exceeds threshold.

  Use monthly for attribution audits. Surfaces specific days where Meta and insights disagree, usually delayed conversion attribution.

  meta-ads-pp-cli reconcile --account act_4327210487520472 --since 30d --threshold 5 --agent

• bottleneck — Highest-spend adsets with worst ROAS, ranked with 'why' column joining learning state and effective status.

  Use weekly to decide what to pause. Highest-leverage targets surface first.

  meta-ads-pp-cli bottleneck --account act_4327210487520472 --limit 10 --agent

Account hygiene

• stale — Active ads with zero impressions in N days.

  Use quarterly for account hygiene. Active ads with zero impressions are usually misconfigured or post-deletion zombies.

  meta-ads-pp-cli stale --days 90 --agent

• inventory — Group every ad in an account by effective_status, surface ads where configured status='ACTIVE' but effective_status='WITH_ISSUES' or 'DISAPPROVED'.

  Use first thing every morning. DISAPPROVED-but-still-ACTIVE ads cost real spend without delivering.

  meta-ads-pp-cli inventory --account act_4327210487520472 --by effective_status --agent

Command Reference

adcreatives — Manage adcreatives

• meta-ads-pp-cli adcreatives <adId> — Get creatives attached to an ad

ads — Ad-level read operations

• meta-ads-pp-cli ads <adAccountId> — List ads in an ad account

adsets — Ad set-level read operations

• meta-ads-pp-cli adsets <adAccountId> — Returns ad sets with targeting summary, budget, optimization goal, and bid strategy.

campaigns — Campaign-level read operations

• meta-ads-pp-cli campaigns <adAccountId> — Returns campaigns with status, objective, and budget metadata.

customaudiences — Manage customaudiences

• meta-ads-pp-cli customaudiences <adAccountId> — List custom audiences in an ad account

delivery-estimate — Manage delivery estimate

• meta-ads-pp-cli delivery-estimate <adAccountId> — Get reach/impressions delivery estimate

insights — Performance and delivery insights (the creative-fatigue observatory)

• meta-ads-pp-cli insights get-account — Returns aggregated insights across the entire ad account.
• meta-ads-pp-cli insights get-ad — Ad-level insights with frequency, CPM, CTR over time.
• meta-ads-pp-cli insights get-ad-set — Get ad set-level insights
• meta-ads-pp-cli insights get-campaign — Get campaign-level insights

me — Manage me

• meta-ads-pp-cli me — Returns every ad account the access token has been granted access to.

Finding the right command

When you know what you want to do but not which command does it, ask the CLI directly:

meta-ads-pp-cli which "<capability in your own words>"

which resolves a natural-language capability query to the best matching command from this CLI's curated feature index. Exit code 0 means at least one match; exit code 2 means no confident match — fall back to --help or use a narrower query.

Recipes

Triage creative fatigue across a campaign

meta-ads-pp-cli fatigue --campaign 23847265 --window 14d --agent --select ad_id,ad_name,cpm_slope,frequency_now,ctr_slope,verdict

Returns one row per ad with CPM slope, current frequency, CTR slope, and a retire/keep verdict. Narrow output by selecting only the fatigue-relevant fields to keep agent context bounded.

Find audience cannibalization risk

meta-ads-pp-cli overlap --audience 23847001 --audience 23847002 --audience 23847003 --agent

Returns pairwise overlap percentages and a recommendation per pair. Anything above 30% is a candidate for consolidation or exclusion.

Spot stuck-in-learning adsets

meta-ads-pp-cli learning --account act_4327210487520472 --min-days 7 --agent

Surfaces adsets where learning_stage_info has been LEARNING for >7 days. The 'why' column hints at budget/audience/event sparsity.

Daily inventory roll-up first thing

meta-ads-pp-cli inventory --account act_4327210487520472 --by effective_status --agent

Groups every ad by effective_status. The DISAPPROVED-but-configured-ACTIVE class is the highest-leverage daily finding.