spy-competitor-ads SKILL.md skillB
spy-competitor-ads from novoads/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add novoads/agent-skills/spy-competitor-ads@git:20260911.9e39357Pins git:20260911.9e39357 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- novoads/agent-skills
- Path
skills/spy-competitor-ads/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20260911.9e39357, committed Sep 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 13, 2026
- Size
- 29,012 bytes
- Repository stars
- 28
- License
- MIT
Downloads a competitor's live ad creatives — the actual MP4s and JPEGs — from the Meta Ad Library into a local swipe folder, through the Novoads API. One sweep per competitor, priced by a live estimate before anything is charged, media pulled the moment the response lands because the CDN links expire, and every ad carried with its permanent Ad Library URL, the page running it, and how many audiences the creative is running against, closing with the three most established and why. Use when…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Spy Competitor Ads Find what a competitor is actually running, and put the files on disk. That is the whole job. It ranks what it finds, on evidence the Ad Library actually publishes — how long a creative has run and how many audiences it runs against. It does **not** judge craft, explain "why it's winning", or write a brief; it has not watched these ads and neither have you. What you do with them belongs to `clone-image-ad`, which turns a static into your own ads, a reusable template, or both. The mechanics are one HTTP call per competitor. Everything that makes a run good or bad is judgement: which competitors, which media mode, and which of the returned ads are actually the brand's rather than somebody else's. ## Before anything: this runs on a Novoads account - **Base URL:** `https://api.novoads.ai/v1` (host overridable with `NOVOADS_BASE_URL` — host only, you append `/v1`). - **Auth:** `Authorization: Bearer $NOVOADS_API_KEY`, read from `.env` at the repo root. The key is `novo_` plus 64 hex. - **Check:** `./scripts/check-novoads-env.sh` - **Never** print API keys, commit `.env`, or paste a key into `MASTER_CONTEXT.md`. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add novoads/agent-skills/spy-competitor-ads@sha256:e4940f246661df18The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260911.9e39357, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ae5vkiimuhnpipfs)
3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Aug 13, 2026 and Sep 11, 2026, about one every 5 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260911.9e39357 latest | 2026-09-11 | 9e39357 | 29,012 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260911.e6e8299 | 2026-09-11 | e6e8299 | 29,012 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260814.0cfabea | 2026-08-14 | 0cfabea | 28,935 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260814.62e1e32 | 2026-08-14 | 62e1e32 | 28,938 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260814.227c71d | 2026-08-14 | 227c71d | 28,938 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260813.5c277a4 | 2026-08-13 | 5c277a4 | 28,736 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260813.5616c8d | 2026-08-13 | 5616c8d | 28,736 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No instruction to read or print local credentials (matched: read from `.env)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (29012 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
novoads/agent-skills · 28 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-17 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ae5vkiimuhnpipfs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=novoads/agent-skills/spy-competitor-ads GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e4940f246661df1871a94165077171956e630526d737e3cf3c11c4cc843e89d6
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.