Meta Ads — Your AI Ad Manager

Stop clicking through Ads Manager. This skill wraps social-cli to give you the five things that actually matter about your Meta campaigns — in plain text, every day.

The thesis: 90% of ad management is pattern recognition. Spend trending up or down. CTR declining (creative fatigue). CPA spiking (audience exhaustion). Winners emerging. Losers bleeding.

This skill spots the patterns. You make the calls.

Read workspace/brand/ per the _vibe-system protocol

Follow all output formatting rules from the _vibe-system output format

Brand Memory Integration

Reads: stack.md, creative-kit.md, audience.md, learnings.md (all optional)

File	What it provides	How it shapes output
`workspace/brand/stack.md`	Stored ad account ID, target CPA/ROAS	Auto-fills account, benchmarks performance against targets
`workspace/brand/creative-kit.md`	Brand creative guidelines, assets	Context for creative recommendations
`workspace/brand/audience.md`	Target audience profiles	Interprets audience performance data
`workspace/brand/learnings.md`	Past performance patterns	Spots recurring issues — "this happened last month too"

Writes

File	What it contains
`workspace/brand/stack.md`	Stores ad account ID on first use
`workspace/brand/learnings.md`	Appends performance findings, fatigue patterns, winning creative traits

Setup (One Time)

1. Install social-cli

npm install -g @vishalgojha/social-cli

2. Create a Meta App (if you don't have one)

Go to developers.facebook.com → My Apps → Create App
Choose "Business" type
Add "Marketing API" product
Note your App ID and App Secret

3. Authenticate

social auth login
# Opens browser → approve → done

Or with app credentials:

social auth set-app --app-id YOUR_APP_ID --app-secret YOUR_APP_SECRET
social auth login --scopes ads_read,ads_management,read_insights

4. Set default ad account

social marketing accounts          # Lists your ad accounts
social marketing set-default-account act_123456

Or set env: export META_AD_ACCOUNT=act_123456

Reports

The 5 Daily Questions ← Start Here

The core of the system. Five questions that replace 20 minutes of Ads Manager clicking:

Am I on track? — Today's spend vs expectations
What's running? — Active campaigns at a glance
How's performance? — 7-day metrics by campaign
Who's winning/losing? — Ad-level performance sorted
Any fatigue? — CTR trends, frequency, CPC movement

Tell me: "Daily ads check"
Or: "Run the 5 questions on my ads"
Or: "How are my Meta ads doing?"

Script: scripts/meta-ads.sh daily-check

Overview

Account-level summary with campaign breakdown.

Tell me: "Meta ads overview for last 30 days"

Script: scripts/meta-ads.sh overview --preset last_30d

Campaigns

List campaigns, optionally filtered by status.

Tell me: "Show me active campaigns"

Script: scripts/meta-ads.sh campaigns --status ACTIVE

Top Creatives

Ad-level performance ranked by results.

Tell me: "What are my best performing ads?"

Script: scripts/meta-ads.sh top-creatives --preset last_7d

Bleeders 🩸

Ads with high spend but poor performance — candidates for pause. Flags ads with CTR < 1% or frequency > 3.5.

Tell me: "Any ads bleeding money?"
Or: "Find underperforming ads"

Script: scripts/meta-ads.sh bleeders --preset last_7d

Winners 🏆

Top performing ads by CTR and efficiency. These are your scale candidates.

Tell me: "Which ads should I scale?"
Or: "Show me the winners"

Script: scripts/meta-ads.sh winners --preset last_7d

Fatigue Check 😴

Daily breakdown to spot creative fatigue — CTR declining day-over-day, frequency climbing, CPC rising.

Tell me: "Any creative fatigue?"
Or: "Check for ad fatigue"

Script: scripts/meta-ads.sh fatigue-check

Custom

Full control. Specify level, fields, breakdowns.

Tell me: "Show me ad performance broken down by age and gender"

Script: scripts/meta-ads.sh custom --level ad --fields "ad_name,spend,ctr,cpc" --breakdowns "age,gender"

Date Presets

today — Today only
yesterday — Yesterday only
last_7d — Last 7 days (default for most reports)
last_30d — Last 30 days
last_90d — Last 90 days

Actions (Use With Care)

Beyond reporting, social-cli can take action. These are wrapped here for the "AI ad manager" workflow but require explicit approval.

Pause a bleeder

social marketing pause ad AD_ID

Resume a winner

social marketing resume ad AD_ID

Shift budget

social marketing set-budget adset ADSET_ID --daily-budget 5000  # in cents

Safety: All mutating actions are high-risk in social-cli and require confirmation. The skill should ALWAYS present findings and recommendations first, then ask for explicit approval before taking action.

The AI Ad Manager Workflow

This is the system from the newsletter. Here's how it works in practice:

Morning (automated via cron):

Run daily-check
Flag bleeders (CTR < 1%, frequency > 3.5, CPA > threshold)
Flag winners (top CTR, low CPC, scaling headroom)
Send summary to Telegram/Slack

You (2 minutes over coffee):

Read the summary
Approve/reject recommendations
Ask follow-up questions if needed

The AI (on approval):

Pause confirmed bleeders
Increase budget on confirmed winners
Log decisions to learnings.md

Invocation

When the user asks about Meta ads, Facebook ads, Instagram ads, or campaign performance:

Check workspace/brand/stack.md for stored ad account ID
Check META_AD_ACCOUNT env var
If neither, run social marketing accounts to list available accounts
Run the appropriate report
Interpret results in context of brand goals (from stack.md/learnings.md)
For bleeders/winners, present clear recommendations with reasoning
Never take action without explicit user approval
Log findings to workspace/brand/learnings.md

The 5 Daily Questions (Detailed)

When running daily-check, frame the output around these questions:

"Am I on track?" — Compare today's spend rate to daily budget. If pacing high or low, flag it.
"What's running?" — List active campaigns with status. Flag any that should be off.
"How's the last 7 days?" — Campaign-level metrics. Compare to previous 7 if available.
"Who's winning and who's losing?" — Ad-level sort. Top 3 winners, bottom 3 losers with specific metrics.
"Any fatigue signals?" — Frequency trends, CTR day-over-day, CPC movement. Concrete numbers, not vibes.

Next Up

/ga4-report — See what Meta traffic actually does on your site. Pair with ads data to find true ROAS.
/gsc-report — Cross-reference paid vs organic. Are you paying for traffic you'd get free?
/creative — Generate new ad creatives when fatigue hits. Feed winning patterns into new concepts.
/direct-response-copy — Write ad copy based on what's actually converting.