Agent skill

Facebook Ads

by thatrebeccarae in thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing

Meta Ads (Facebook & Instagram) platform expertise. An agent skill from thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing.

MITAuto-check passedMarketing & SEO

Install Facebook Ads

skills CLI
$ npx skills add thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing --skill facebook-ads -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing facebook-ads --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/facebook-ads .claude/skills/facebook-ads && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
facebook-ads
GitHub stars
161
Token cost
~2k tokens
SKILL.md length
796 words
Files
7
Skills in repo
55
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Meta Ads (Facebook & Instagram) platform expertise. An agent skill from thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing.

  • Works in 10 steps: Pixel & CAPI Health — Event tracking,… → Account Structure — Campaign… → Audience Strategy — Overlap analysis,… → …
  • The user asks about Facebook Ads
  • SKILL.md covers Install, Core Capabilities, Key Benchmarks and Campaign Structure (Modern…, plus 5 more sections
  • Calls git

What it does

Facebook Ads is an agent skill from thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing. Meta Ads (Facebook & Instagram) platform expertise. Audit campaigns, audiences, creative strategy, pixel tracking, and CAPI. Use when the user asks about Facebook Ads, Instagram Ads, Meta Ads, social media advertising, Advantage+ campaigns, or Meta pixel/CAPI setup.

Its SKILL.md is about 2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 6 other files (for example `CHECKS.md`, `EXAMPLES.md` and `REFERENCE.md`).

It sits in Marketing & SEO, covering Paid advertising. It works with Meta Ads, Instagram and iOS. The repository describes itself as: A full marketing department for Claude Code. Skill packs for Klaviyo, Shopify, GA4, Looker Studio, paid media, and more. Audit, optimize, and report using natural language. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The user asks about Facebook Ads
  • Social media advertising
  • Advantage+ campaigns
  • Meta pixel/CAPI setup

Example prompts

  • “/facebook-ads”

Workflow steps

10 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Pixel & CAPI Health — Event tracking, CAPI coverage, event match quality score, AEM config
  2. Account Structure — Campaign consolidation, objective alignment, naming conventions
  3. Audience Strategy — Overlap analysis, LAL seeds, audience size, Advantage+ adoption
  4. Creative Analysis — Format mix, creative fatigue (frequency + declining CTR), testing velocity
  5. Budget & Bidding — CBO vs ABO, budget allocation, bid strategy (lowest cost vs cost cap vs bid cap)
  6. Funnel Coverage — Prospecting vs retargeting balance, exclusions between funnels
  7. Attribution — Window settings, cross-platform reconciliation (vs GA4), CAPI deduplication
  8. Placement Optimization — Advantage+ placements vs manual, creative per placement
  9. Shopping / Catalog — Feed quality, product sets, dynamic ads setup
  10. Recommendations — Prioritized with expected impact and creative direction

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit a8a63ec. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • git

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Facebook Ads loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 70 tokens; SKILL.md has 796 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~70
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing at commit a8a63ec, republished under its MIT licence (© thatrebeccarae). 796 words, ~1,973 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/facebook-ads/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 6 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
facebook-ads
description
Meta Ads (Facebook & Instagram) platform expertise. Audit campaigns, audiences, creative strategy, pixel tracking, and CAPI. Use when the user asks about Facebook Ads, Instagram Ads, Meta Ads, social media advertising, Advantage+ campaigns, or Meta pixel/CAPI setup.
license
MIT
origin
custom
author
Rebecca Rae Barton
author_url
https://github.com/thatrebeccarae
metadata.version
1.0.0
metadata.category
paid-media
metadata.domain
meta-ads
metadata.updated
2026-03-11
metadata.tested
2026-03-17
metadata.tested_with
Claude Code v2.1

Meta Ads (Facebook & Instagram)

Expert-level guidance for Meta Ads — auditing, building, and optimizing campaigns across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and the Audience Network.

Install

bash
git clone https://github.com/thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing.git && cp -r claude-marketing/skills/facebook-ads ~/.claude/skills/

Core Capabilities

Campaign Auditing & Optimization
  • Full account audit: structure, objectives, audiences, creative, tracking, attribution
  • Identify creative fatigue, audience overlap, and budget inefficiencies
  • Diagnose performance drops (iOS privacy, audience saturation, creative burnout)
  • Advantage+ Shopping and Advantage+ Audience recommendations
Campaign Objectives (Outcome-Based)
  • Awareness — Reach, brand awareness, video views
  • Traffic — Link clicks, landing page views
  • Engagement — Post engagement, messages, conversions on-platform
  • Leads — Instant Forms, Messenger, website lead gen
  • App Promotion — App installs, app events
  • Sales — Website conversions, catalog sales, Advantage+ Shopping
Audience Strategy
  • Core Audiences — Demographics, interests, behaviors, location
  • Custom Audiences — Website (pixel/CAPI), customer list, app activity, video viewers, engagement
  • Lookalike Audiences — 1-10% based on custom audience seed (value-based LALs preferred)
  • Advantage+ Audience — Meta's AI-driven targeting (audience suggestions as signals, not constraints)
  • Broad targeting — No interests/LAL, rely on creative + pixel data + Meta's ML
Creative Strategy
  • Ad format selection: single image, carousel, video, collection, Instant Experience
  • Creative testing frameworks: concept testing vs iterative testing
  • UGC (user-generated content) integration and creator whitelisting
  • Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO) vs manual A/B testing
  • Creative fatigue signals and refresh cadence
  • Platform-specific creative (Feed, Stories, Reels, Explore)
Tracking & Attribution
  • Meta Pixel — Standard events, custom events, microdata, aggregated event measurement
  • Conversions API (CAPI) — Server-side tracking for privacy resilience
  • Aggregated Event Measurement (AEM) — iOS 14.5+ handling, 8-event prioritization
  • Attribution settings: 7-day click + 1-day view (default), 1-day click, 28-day click
  • UTM parameter strategy for GA4 cross-reference
  • Conversion lift studies and incrementality testing

Key Benchmarks

MetricGoodGreatWarning
CTR (Link Clicks)1-2%3%+<0.8%
CPC (Link Click)$0.50-$1.50<$0.50>$2.00
CPM$8-$15<$8>$20
Conversion Rate (Landing Page)3-5%8%+<2%
ROAS (ecommerce)3-4x6x+<2x
Cost Per LeadIndustry dependentBelow industry avgRising trend
Frequency (prospecting)1.5-2.51-1.5>3.5
Frequency (retargeting)3-62-3>10
Thumb-Stop Rate (video)25-35%40%+<20%
Hook Rate (3s video views %)30-40%50%+<25%

Campaign Structure (Modern Best Practice)

Ad Account
├── Advantage+ Shopping Campaign (ecommerce)
│   ├── Broad targeting (Meta AI optimizes)
│   ├── Existing customer budget cap (10-20%)
│   └── Mixed creative (image, video, UGC, carousel)
├── Prospecting Campaign (Conversions/Sales)
│   ├── Ad Set: Broad (no targeting, trust the pixel)
│   ├── Ad Set: Lookalike 1-3% (value-based)
│   └── Ad Set: Interest stacks (if needed)
├── Retargeting Campaign (Conversions/Sales)
│   ├── Ad Set: Website visitors 1-30 days
│   ├── Ad Set: Engaged (video viewers, IG/FB engaged)
│   └── Ad Set: Cart abandoners
├── Lead Gen Campaign (if applicable)
│   ├── Ad Set: Lookalikes of converters
│   └── Ad Set: Interest-based
└── Brand / Top-of-Funnel (optional)
    ├── Video Views (awareness content)
    └── Traffic (blog, resources)

Modern trend: Consolidate ad sets. Meta's algorithm performs better with fewer, broader ad sets and more creative diversity within each.

Workflow: Full Account Audit

When asked to audit a Meta Ads account:

  1. Pixel & CAPI Health — Event tracking, CAPI coverage, event match quality score, AEM config
  2. Account Structure — Campaign consolidation, objective alignment, naming conventions
  3. Audience Strategy — Overlap analysis, LAL seeds, audience size, Advantage+ adoption
  4. Creative Analysis — Format mix, creative fatigue (frequency + declining CTR), testing velocity
  5. Budget & Bidding — CBO vs ABO, budget allocation, bid strategy (lowest cost vs cost cap vs bid cap)
  6. Funnel Coverage — Prospecting vs retargeting balance, exclusions between funnels
  7. Attribution — Window settings, cross-platform reconciliation (vs GA4), CAPI deduplication
  8. Placement Optimization — Advantage+ placements vs manual, creative per placement
  9. Shopping / Catalog — Feed quality, product sets, dynamic ads setup
  10. Recommendations — Prioritized with expected impact and creative direction
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Post-iOS 14.5 Best Practices

  • Implement CAPI alongside pixel (aim for 90%+ event match quality)
  • Prioritize 8 conversion events per domain in Events Manager
  • Use value optimization when possible (Purchase over Add to Cart)
  • Broader audiences outperform narrow (give Meta's ML room to optimize)
  • UTM tracking + GA4 as secondary attribution source
  • Creative is the new targeting — invest in creative testing over audience testing

How to Use This Skill

Ask me questions like:

  • "Audit my Facebook Ads account performance"
  • "My ROAS is declining — what should I investigate?"
  • "Help me set up Conversions API (CAPI)"
  • "Design a creative testing framework for my brand"
  • "Should I use Advantage+ Shopping or manual campaigns?"
  • "Build a full-funnel campaign structure for my DTC brand"
  • "My frequency is too high — how do I manage audience fatigue?"
  • "Plan a lead gen campaign for B2B on Facebook/Instagram"

For detailed Meta Ads API reference, pixel implementation, and advanced configurations, see REFERENCE.md.

Hard Rules

These constraints must never be violated in recommendations:

  1. Pixel + CAPI both required. Post-iOS 14.5, browser-only tracking loses 30-40% of conversion data.
  2. Event deduplication must be active (event_id matching) — without it, conversions are double-counted.
  3. Event Match Quality ≥8.0 for Purchase event. Below 6.0 is critical.
  4. Budget must be ≥5x target CPA per ad set — below this, the algorithm cannot exit learning phase.
  5. Never recommend edits during active learning phase — wait for ~50 conversions/week or intentional reset.
  6. Creative fatigue = action required. CTR decline >20% over 14 days with frequency >3 = replace creative immediately.
  7. <30% of ad sets in Learning Limited — above this threshold, consolidation is mandatory.
  8. Purchasers/converters must be excluded from prospecting campaigns.
  9. Special Ad Categories must be declared before campaign creation for Housing, Employment, Credit, and Financial Products.

Scored Audit

When performing an account audit, load skills/shared/scoring-system.md for the weighted scoring algorithm and CHECKS.md for the 46-check Meta Ads audit checklist. Produce a health score (0-100, grade A-F) with Quick Wins and a prioritized action plan.

© thatrebeccarae, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 6 other files in skills/facebook-ads of thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing.

  • SKILL.md
  • .env.example
  • CHECKS.md
  • EXAMPLES.md
  • LICENSE
  • REFERENCE.md
  • requirements.txt

Open the folder on GitHubat commit a8a63ec

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Categories

Questions about Facebook Ads

What does Facebook Ads do?

Meta Ads (Facebook & Instagram) platform expertise. An agent skill from thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing. Facebook Ads is an agent skill from thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing. Meta Ads (Facebook & Instagram) platform expertise.

When should I use Facebook Ads?

Facebook Ads fits situations like: the user asks about Facebook Ads; social media advertising; advantage+ campaigns; meta pixel/CAPI setup.

How do I install Facebook Ads in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing --skill facebook-ads -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/facebook-ads in thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing) into .claude/skills/facebook-ads in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Facebook Ads in Codex?

Run `npx skills add thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing --skill facebook-ads -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/facebook-ads in thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing) into .agents/skills/facebook-ads in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Facebook Ads in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing --skill facebook-ads -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/facebook-ads, .gemini/skills/facebook-ads, .github/skills/facebook-ads and .opencode/skills/facebook-ads in your project.

What does Facebook Ads need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Facebook Ads needs the command-line tools its instructions call (git).

Does Facebook Ads access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Facebook Ads safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Facebook Ads use?

Facebook Ads is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Facebook Ads use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Facebook Ads?

thatrebeccarae (a GitHub user) maintains it in thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing, which has 161 GitHub stars. The repository holds 55 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on May 14, 2026.

Source: thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.