5 Claude Code Skills That Replace Your Meta Ads Agency

TL;DR: Five Claude Code skills handle the work most brands pay an agency $3,000-10,000/month to do: competitor ad research, creative scoring, bulk asset generation, and campaign management. Install them in minutes. Run them from your terminal. No retainer required.

Most e-commerce brands hit the same wall. Ad performance plateaus, creative production slows down, and the agency keeps billing. The problem is not strategy. It is execution speed. You need more creative iterations, faster competitive intel, and tighter feedback loops than any agency can deliver on a monthly retainer.

Claude Code skills solve this by turning complex ad operations into single commands. Here are five that replace the core functions of a Meta ads agency.

1. /spy — Competitor Ad Research on Demand

This skill pulls active ads from any competitor's Meta Ad Library page and returns structured data: creative type, copy, CTA, landing page, and run duration.

Instead of manually scrolling the Ad Library or waiting for your agency's monthly competitive report, run one command and get the full picture in seconds.

What it replaces: The "competitive landscape" section of your agency's monthly report.

2. /competitive-ads-extractor — Structured Competitive Intelligence

Goes deeper than /spy. This skill extracts ad creatives, downloads assets, and organizes them into a structured folder with metadata. Use it to build a swipe file that stays current.

What it replaces: The junior media buyer who manually screenshots competitor ads into a Google Drive folder.

3. /bulk-creative — Generate Ad Variations at Scale

Feed it one winning ad concept and it generates multiple variations: different hooks, different CTAs, different visual treatments. Output is ready for upload to your ad account.

What it replaces: The creative team producing 5-10 variations per week. This does it in minutes.

4. /ads meta — Campaign Management From Your Terminal

Connect your Meta Ads account and manage campaigns without opening Ads Manager. Create campaigns, adjust budgets, pause underperformers, and pull performance data, all from the command line.

What it replaces: The account manager toggling campaigns in Ads Manager.

5. /ads-score — Creative Scoring Before You Spend

Upload a creative and get a predicted performance score based on historical patterns. Catch weak ads before they waste budget. Prioritize your testing queue by score.

What it replaces: The gut feeling your agency uses to decide which creative to test first.

Installation

Install all five skills in Claude Code:

claude install-skill /spy
claude install-skill /competitive-ads-extractor
claude install-skill /bulk-creative
claude install-skill /ads
claude install-skill /ads-score

The Chaining Workflow

These skills are most powerful when chained together:

Research: Run /spy on your top 3 competitors. Identify what creative formats and hooks they are running.
Extract: Use /competitive-ads-extractor to pull the actual assets and organize them.
Score: Run /ads-score on your current creatives to find the weakest performers.
Generate: Feed your best-performing concept into /bulk-creative to produce 10-20 variations.
Launch: Use /ads meta to create the campaign, set budgets, and go live.

This entire loop takes under 30 minutes. An agency takes 1-2 weeks.

Setup Checklist

Before you start, make sure you have:

Claude Code installed and authenticated
Meta Business Suite access with an active ad account
A Meta access token with ads_read and ads_management permissions
Your Meta Ad Account ID
At least one active campaign to test against

When This Works Best

This setup is ideal for:

Solo founders running their own Meta ads who need agency-level tooling
Small teams where one person handles creative and media buying
Brands spending $5k-50k/month who have outgrown DIY but do not want to pay agency fees
DTC brands testing high volumes of creative and need faster iteration cycles

When You Still Need an Agency

These tools handle execution. They do not replace strategic thinking for brands spending $100k+/month who need custom attribution modeling, cross-channel media planning, or creative strategy built on proprietary data. For those brands, the tools become force multipliers for the agency, not replacements.

If you want this creative production handled for you, admade generates ad creatives from a product URL in under 2 minutes. No skills to install, no prompts to write. Just paste your product link and get scroll-stopping ads back.