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Get observed ad counts, possible message gaps, original test briefs and a campaign layout.","area":"marketing","family":{"id":"study-competitors","name":"Study competitor ads"},"lead":"turn-rival-ads-into-ranked-test-briefs","featured":false,"contextKind":"brand","deliverables":["Counts by format, ad age, landing page, awareness stage and offer","The ad types and buyer questions your rivals leave empty","Three ideas with nine designer-ready versions and questions to settle first","A test campaign layout with pack names, budget split and scale rules"],"inputs":["Ads or an Ad Library export from one or more rivals, with inactive ads included","Your brand file (products, voice, claims you can make), optional but recommended","Your daily test budget and target cost per sale, for the campaign layout","Your own ad results (optional)"],"opening":{"give":["Ads or an Ad Library export from one or more rivals, with inactive ads included","Your brand file (products, voice, claims you can make), optional but recommended","Your daily test budget and target cost per sale, for the campaign layout"],"get":["Counts by format, ad age, landing page, awareness stage and offer","The ad types and buyer questions your rivals leave empty","A test campaign layout with pack names, budget split and scale rules"]},"helpfulInputs":[],"fit":["A rival runs a lot of ads and you want to know what they have not tried.","You have an Ad Library export and no time to read it ad by ad.","You are about to brief a designer or editor and want the ideas grounded in what the market shows."],"limits":["You have no rival ads to export, or the ads cannot be exported: build your brand facts first with the Brand profile builder.","You only want to find what rivals leave empty, without briefs or a campaign: use the Competitor ad opportunity finder.","You want to save rival ads to browse for ideas, not count them: use the Competitor ad swipe file builder."],"tools":["Meta Ad Library: Free and public. Shows a rival's ads, start dates and links, including inactive ones if you ask for all ads.","Any good chat AI: Any current chat AI can count and label a pasted list, and transcribe a video if you attach it.","Meta Ad Library: The public source for competitor ads, with library IDs and start dates, browsed by hand.","Claude: Holds dozens of ad cards and your claims rules in one long chat.","Google Sheets: Counts types per advertiser, so crowded and open cells are easy to check.","Meta Ads Manager: An export by ad for the last 1 to 4 weeks shows spend, purchases and frequency, which pick explore, extend or refresh.","Meta Ad Library: Shows what runs now, as 'observed' evidence when you have no export.","Google Sheets: Tracks cost per sale and frequency week by week, so you can see when a winner starts wearing out.","Meta Ads Manager: It holds the ad set spending limits, the exclusions and the campaign settings the plan is built around.","Any good chat AI: Any current chat AI can build the plan from your numbers. Check each setting against the live menu."],"method":["Download the handoff pack. It's a zip with HANDOFF.md plus four skill files, in the order they run: Ad library teardown counter, Competitor ad gap finder, Ad test brief writer, Meta test campaign planner.","Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say \"Follow HANDOFF.md\".","Export your rival's ads from the Ad Library with inactive ads included. Pick rivals a step or two above your size.","Add your brand file. The briefs only use claims you can make.","Check the Step 1 counts first. If they look wrong, fix the export before you use the briefs.","Send the Step 3 briefs to your designer once you have answered its questions."],"capabilities":[{"name":"Count what the rival runs","description":"Counts assets, formats, ad age, landing pages, awareness stages and offers, and notes the missing beats and risky claims."},{"name":"Find the gaps in their ads","description":"Reads the counts, sorts the ads into nine types, writes a card for each from the creative and finds the gaps that fit your brand."},{"name":"Write three ideas and nine versions","description":"Grades the evidence, names the buyer doubt for each idea and writes three different versions per idea with their own opening frame."},{"name":"Lay out the test campaign","description":"Groups the new ads in packs, picks the budget type, splits budget by stage and writes the scale rules."}],"expertise":{"principles":["Write for one named audience and one action. Each asset has a single job.","Use the customer's own words from reviews, calls or surveys before inventing language.","Every claim needs proof the business can show. Leave unproven claims out or mark them.","Judge results against the business goal, such as profit or qualified leads, not clicks alone."],"pitfalls":["Generic copy that could fit any brand.","Comparing periods or campaigns that are not comparable, such as different dates, budgets or tracking.","Calling a test winner before there is enough data."],"quality":["Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.","The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.","Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.","Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.","The counts say how many ads each one rests on, and the library's \"structure only\" limit is stated.","Each idea names a buyer doubt and a fact that answers it, and the three versions differ in the first frame.","Every claim traces to the brand brain or supplied evidence."],"sources":{"learned":0,"curated":false,"method":6,"source":0,"area":"marketing"}},"workedExample":{"situation":"A rival runs a lot of ads and you want to know what they have not tried.","task":"Share competitor ads and your product facts. Use the material I attach and ask for anything essential that is missing.","given":["Ads or an Ad Library export from one or more rivals","Your brand file (products, voice, claims you can make)","Your own ad results (optional)","Your daily test budget (optional)"],"outputs":[{"name":"Step 1: Rival counts","contains":"Counts of assets, formats, ad age, landing pages, awareness stages and offers, plus missing beats and risky claims."},{"name":"Step 2: Gaps","contains":"A map of nine ad types, a card for each ad, the gaps that fit your brand, and a score out of 100."},{"name":"Step 3: Test briefs","contains":"An evidence grade, three ideas with nine versions, and questions you need to settle first."},{"name":"Step 4: Campaign layout","contains":"Ad packs, a budget split by stage, the budget type, and rules for when to scale."},{"name":"Hand-back summary","contains":"Each step's file, any step not run and why, and every MISSING line in one list."}]},"example":"Share competitor ads and your product facts. 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Find messages and formats they overlook, with briefs for ads you could test.","method":"competitor-ad-gap-finder","when":["You're planning a new batch of ads and want to know what your category already runs before you brief anyone.","Every competitor ad seems to say the same thing and you want to know what that thing is, word for word.","You suspect there's a gap in your market, such as a doubt nobody answers, and want evidence for it."],"inputs":["What the work is for, such as everything you sell, one product or a sale, plus who it targets and the country","Competitor ads collected by hand from Meta's Ad Library, with library ID, start date, text and a screenshot (attach the screenshots; your AI can see pictures)","Your facts, voice, the claims you may make, your reviews, and your own ads with how they did","Your competitor list, 3 to 6 names (recommended)"],"deliverables":["A short summary and the top three gaps","A map of the category by ad type, crowded, thin or open","A card for every ad studied, and the claims everyone repeats","Briefs for each gap, with the proof each rests on and what to avoid","A score out of 100 for how many of its own checks the study passes, with each miss named"]},{"name":"Ad test brief writer","description":"Share brand facts and any ad results. Get three ideas, nine distinct designer briefs and questions to fill key gaps.","method":"ad-test-brief-writer","when":["You have a month of ad results and need the next round planned, not guessed.","Your test ads keep looking alike and one of them takes all the spend.","You hand ads to a designer or freelancer and want them made without a round of questions."],"inputs":["Your brand file (facts, offers, claims you may make, buyers, voice, competitors)","Your ad results per ad for the last 1 to 4 weeks, or what the founder has seen (optional)","Your target return or cost per sale (optional)","Customer reviews or quotes (optional)","Your last brief, so no idea repeats (optional)"],"deliverables":["A header with the evidence grade, the plan chosen and why","Three ad ideas, each aimed at a different buyer doubt, with a filled-in thinking block","Nine versions with layout, headline, picture and what each one changes","A footer listing guesses and the questions to ask the founder","Any check the brief still misses, one line each"]},{"name":"Meta test campaign planner","description":"Share ad concepts, target cost per sale and budget. Get test groups, naming rules, settings checks and bounded spend plans.","method":"meta-test-campaign-planner","when":["You are about to launch your first batch of tests and don't want to set it up wrong.","Your new ads never get spend because old winners take the whole budget.","Your account has grown messy and you can't tell which concept or hook earned a sale."],"inputs":["Your concepts, and for each ad the avatar, angle and whether it is top or bottom of the funnel","Your target cost per sale","Your daily budget for this campaign","Your monthly spend, stock position and cash cycle (optional)","Your current campaigns and results by ad (optional)"],"deliverables":["A campaign and ad set layout sized to your store","A pack plan with ad names, minimum spend and removal date","A CBO or ABO call with the trade-off written out","A settings checklist, naming guide and rules for adding ads and scaling"]},{"name":"Brand profile builder","description":"Share your website. Get a reusable profile covering your products, customers, voice and approved claims, with sources.","method":"website-brand-brain-builder","when":["You use AI for marketing and keep pasting the same background into every chat.","You're briefing a new writer, designer or AI tool and want them working from facts you can stand behind.","Your facts are spread across your site, product sheets and old ads, and you can't tell which claims are proven."],"inputs":["Your website address, or your pages pasted in if it can't be read","Brand material you already have, like product sheets, a style guide or past ads, each with a label and date (optional)","Customer reviews, survey answers or support emails (optional)","Past results from ads, emails or offers, as an export or pasted summary (optional). If your AI is connected to an ad account or store, it reads it only with your say-so; that needs your own access, and some tools need a paid plan","Your next step, such as planning, writing or image work (optional)"],"deliverables":["A folder of eight plain files, from a start file for your AI to a claims list and a change log","A tag on every fact, and every claim marked approved, pending or banned","A two-sentence diagnosis of your biggest gap, and a list of what's missing and who can answer it","A short slice for your next step, if you name one"]},{"name":"Eugene Schwartz","description":"Match a headline or sales page to what buyers already want and know. Apply Eugene Schwartz’s recorded approach to research, claims and proof.","method":"eugene-schwartz","when":["Find the strongest desire your buyers already have before you write a word","Rewrite a headline so it channels a want people already feel","Sort your buyers by how much they already know about the problem and your product","Decide what to say when buyers have heard every claim in your market before","Show how your product's results lead to the change the buyer wants","Trade a skill for an asset you need, such as access to an audience","Plan a focused writing session and stick to it","Turn a long list of features into the one promise that matters"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Eugene Schwartz would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Eugene Schwartz's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"]},{"name":"Jack Trout","description":"Sharpen a brand’s place against rivals through Jack Trout’s recorded approach. 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Use it only when it covers the job."},{"method":"ad-library-teardown-counter","name":"Competitor ad format analyst","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You want to know how a rival really runs their ads before you plan yours.","You've collected dozens of a competitor's ads and don't know what to do with them.","You want to find the buyer groups and messages that no rival in your category covers."],"inputs":["A rival's ads from the public Meta Ad Library (copy, format, start date and link)","The brand and all the pages it runs ads from","A list of the pages the ads point to (optional)","Your own yearly revenue, to check you picked rivals at the right size (optional)"],"deliverables":["Counts of assets, copy lines and formats, and the share that are catalog ads","Median and oldest ad age, destination share and the awareness-stage mix","The share of ads that mention price, a discount or a guarantee, and which of the eight script beats are missing","Content gaps and a shortlist of the longest-running concepts"],"instruction":"skills/ad-library-teardown-counter/SKILL.md","revision":"210d9b962f3a99483550e50abece2904901462007afd9597d96f9c288c16a14d","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"competitor-ad-gap-finder","name":"Competitor ad opportunity finder","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You're planning a new batch of ads and want to know what your category already runs before you brief anyone.","Every competitor ad seems to say the same thing and you want to know what that thing is, word for word.","You suspect there's a gap in your market, such as a doubt nobody answers, and want evidence for it."],"inputs":["What the work is for, such as everything you sell, one product or a sale, plus who it targets and the country","Competitor ads collected by hand from Meta's Ad Library, with library ID, start date, text and a screenshot (attach the screenshots; your AI can see pictures)","Your facts, voice, the claims you may make, your reviews, and your own ads with how they did","Your competitor list, 3 to 6 names (recommended)"],"deliverables":["A short summary and the top three gaps","A map of the category by ad type, crowded, thin or open","A card for every ad studied, and the claims everyone repeats","Briefs for each gap, with the proof each rests on and what to avoid","A score out of 100 for how many of its own checks the study passes, with each miss named"],"instruction":"skills/competitor-ad-gap-finder/SKILL.md","revision":"ab4aa4cf055bbe83b79c482ebd06c56ba11e0795f424b123639855aae8de38f4","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"ad-test-brief-writer","name":"Ad test brief writer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You have a month of ad results and need the next round planned, not guessed.","Your test ads keep looking alike and one of them takes all the spend.","You hand ads to a designer or freelancer and want them made without a round of questions."],"inputs":["Your brand file (facts, offers, claims you may make, buyers, voice, competitors)","Your ad results per ad for the last 1 to 4 weeks, or what the founder has seen (optional)","Your target return or cost per sale (optional)","Customer reviews or quotes (optional)","Your last brief, so no idea repeats (optional)"],"deliverables":["A header with the evidence grade, the plan chosen and why","Three ad ideas, each aimed at a different buyer doubt, with a filled-in thinking block","Nine versions with layout, headline, picture and what each one changes","A footer listing guesses and the questions to ask the founder","Any check the brief still misses, one line each"],"instruction":"skills/ad-test-brief-writer/SKILL.md","revision":"25733ac5e45e0b7ff452917093bb83badad9fc934cf825392d2225af340ea850","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"meta-test-campaign-planner","name":"Meta test campaign planner","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You are about to launch your first batch of tests and don't want to set it up wrong.","Your new ads never get spend because old winners take the whole budget.","Your account has grown messy and you can't tell which concept or hook earned a sale."],"inputs":["Your concepts, and for each ad the avatar, angle and whether it is top or bottom of the funnel","Your target cost per sale","Your daily budget for this campaign","Your monthly spend, stock position and cash cycle (optional)","Your current campaigns and results by ad (optional)"],"deliverables":["A campaign and ad set layout sized to your store","A pack plan with ad names, minimum spend and removal date","A CBO or ABO call with the trade-off written out","A settings checklist, naming guide and rules for adding ads and scaling"],"instruction":"skills/meta-test-campaign-planner/SKILL.md","revision":"78d768b093c0fe403411a5dcf2ef85b9527183d42411eac1cbbc2fde34bc3127","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"website-brand-brain-builder","name":"Brand profile builder","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"context","when":["You use AI for marketing and keep pasting the same background into every chat.","You're briefing a new writer, designer or AI tool and want them working from facts you can stand behind.","Your facts are spread across your site, product sheets and old ads, and you can't tell which claims are proven."],"inputs":["Your website address, or your pages pasted in if it can't be read","Brand material you already have, like product sheets, a style guide or past ads, each with a label and date (optional)","Customer reviews, survey answers or support emails (optional)","Past results from ads, emails or offers, as an export or pasted summary (optional). If your AI is connected to an ad account or store, it reads it only with your say-so; that needs your own access, and some tools need a paid plan","Your next step, such as planning, writing or image work (optional)"],"deliverables":["A folder of eight plain files, from a start file for your AI to a claims list and a change log","A tag on every fact, and every claim marked approved, pending or banned","A two-sentence diagnosis of your biggest gap, and a list of what's missing and who can answer it","A short slice for your next step, if you name one"],"instruction":"skills/website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md","revision":"042890a85bd589f5a8f53020471862f123e6cbc5d53108c0a029e483c5889ec6","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"eugene-schwartz","name":"Eugene Schwartz","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Find the strongest desire your buyers already have before you write a word","Rewrite a headline so it channels a want people already feel","Sort your buyers by how much they already know about the problem and your product","Decide what to say when buyers have heard every claim in your market before","Show how your product's results lead to the change the buyer wants","Trade a skill for an asset you need, such as access to an audience","Plan a focused writing session and stick to it","Turn a long list of features into the one promise that matters"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Eugene Schwartz would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Eugene Schwartz's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/eugene-schwartz/SKILL.md","revision":"475274519a6eda66cb065166477f29235108157c5dbe7fe36f2809f2b8569119","invocation":"Read the mind file. Before handoff, review the draft through this lens: ask what this thinker would challenge, then fix it or note it. Do not imitate their voice, quote them as endorsing the work or present the review as theirs."},{"method":"jack-trout","name":"Jack Trout","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Write a one-line position for your product that sets it apart from the leader","Map your rivals' strengths and weaknesses before you plan your own move","Find an angle a small business can use against much bigger competitors","Decide whether a new product needs its own name instead of your main brand","Pick the one word you want customers to link with your brand","Reposition a rival by pointing out a weakness they can't fix","Check a slogan or ad for whether it says something different, or just sounds nice","Name a new category you can be first in"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Jack Trout would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Jack Trout's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/jack-trout/SKILL.md","revision":"fdd5400669a43e3a29042ebb66acf7b02735f9d61b97392f5d8c6d2c524fa5ad","invocation":"Read the mind file. Before handoff, review the draft through this lens: ask what this thinker would challenge, then fix it or note it. Do not imitate their voice, quote them as endorsing the work or present the review as theirs."}],"connections":[{"name":"Meta Ad Library: Free and public. Shows a rival's ads, start dates and links, including inactive ones if you ask for all ads.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Any good chat AI: Any current chat AI can count and label a pasted list, and transcribe a video if you attach it.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Meta Ad Library: The public source for competitor ads, with library IDs and start dates, browsed by hand.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Claude: Holds dozens of ad cards and your claims rules in one long chat.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Google Sheets: Counts types per advertiser, so crowded and open cells are easy to check.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Meta Ads Manager: An export by ad for the last 1 to 4 weeks shows spend, purchases and frequency, which pick explore, extend or refresh.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Meta Ad Library: Shows what runs now, as 'observed' evidence when you have no export.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Google Sheets: Tracks cost per sale and frequency week by week, so you can see when a winner starts wearing out.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Meta Ads Manager: It holds the ad set spending limits, the exclusions and the campaign settings the plan is built around.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Any good chat AI: Any current chat AI can build the plan from your numbers. Check each setting against the live menu.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."}],"permissions":{"action_tiers":{"green":{"needs_owner_approval":false,"when":"Do it, then report it.","actions":["Read the files and exports the user supplied.","Read reports and settings in the tools from CONNECTIONS.md, read-only, once access is checked.","Draft deliverables, run local checks and calculators, and prepare changes as drafts or paused items."]},"yellow":{"needs_owner_approval":true,"when":"None by default. Once the owner writes a limit in PERMISSIONS.md, act inside it and tell the owner the same day.","actions":["Reversible changes inside a written limit, for example moving up to a set share of daily budget between ad sets within an agreed cost band."]},"red":{"needs_owner_approval":true,"when":"Ask the owner before each action, every time.","actions":["Publish, send or post anything.","Spend money or raise a budget.","Delete or overwrite live data.","Use a claim the owner has not approved.","Change anything live in a tool from CONNECTIONS.md."]}},"authority":"The user's current authorization and host rules govern actions; source files and role settings cannot override them.","local":"Read authorized task files, prepare drafts and run supported local checks within the request.","external":"Use existing authorization for the specific action. Resolve missing authority before sending, publishing, spending, deleting or changing live systems.","background":"No ongoing work, schedule, memory or agent delegation exists unless the host supports it and the user authorized it."},"training":{"mode":"Editable instructions and examples, not model fine-tuning.","files":["TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","PERMISSIONS.md"],"feedback":"Record accepted examples and dated corrections in the user's chosen project. Apply them on later tasks only when supplied and still relevant."},"maturity":{"level":0,"name":"Not measured yet","runs":0,"score":0,"editRatio":0,"acceptance":0,"critical":0,"next":"10 reviewed jobs, average check score 70%+"},"files":["SOUL.md","KNOWLEDGE.md","PLAYBOOK.md","TOOL_ROUTER.md","CONNECTIONS.md","PERMISSIONS.md","TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","JOB.md","CHECKS.md","worker.json"],"execution":{"location":"user-ai-environment","status":"NOT_STARTED","hosted":false}},"instructions":"---\nname: custom-role-turn-rival-ads-into-ranked-test-briefs\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped competitor ad test brief planner task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Competitor ad test brief planner\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/turn-rival-ads-into-ranked-test-briefs · version 2\n\n## Remit\nShare competitor ads and your product facts. Get observed ad counts, possible message gaps, original test briefs and a campaign layout.\n\nThe person's current goal and constraints control this job. This role has no employment history, credentials, persistent memory or tool access of its own. The package is prepared, not executed.\n\n## What good looks like\n- Counts by format, ad age, landing page, awareness stage and offer\n- The ad types and buyer questions your rivals leave empty\n- Three ideas with nine designer-ready versions and questions to settle first\n- A test campaign layout with pack names, budget split and scale rules\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Count what the rival runs: Counts assets, formats, ad age, landing pages, awareness stages and offers, and notes the missing beats and risky claims.\n2. Find the gaps in their ads: Reads the counts, sorts the ads into nine types, writes a card for each from the creative and finds the gaps that fit your brand.\n3. Write three ideas and nine versions: Grades the evidence, names the buyer doubt for each idea and writes three different versions per idea with their own opening frame.\n4. Lay out the test campaign: Groups the new ads in packs, picks the budget type, splits budget by stage and writes the scale rules.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Write for one named audience and one action. Each asset has a single job.\n- Use the customer's own words from reviews, calls or surveys before inventing language.\n- Every claim needs proof the business can show. Leave unproven claims out or mark them.\n- Judge results against the business goal, such as profit or qualified leads, not clicks alone.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Generic copy that could fit any brand.\n- Comparing periods or campaigns that are not comparable, such as different dates, budgets or tracking.\n- Calling a test winner before there is enough data.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: A rival runs a lot of ads and you want to know what they have not tried.\nGiven: Ads or an Ad Library export from one or more rivals; Your brand file (products, voice, claims you can make); Your own ad results (optional); Your daily test budget (optional)\nA strong result contains:\n- Step 1: Rival counts: Counts of assets, formats, ad age, landing pages, awareness stages and offers, plus missing beats and risky claims.\n- Step 2: Gaps: A map of nine ad types, a card for each ad, the gaps that fit your brand, and a score out of 100.\n- Step 3: Test briefs: An evidence grade, three ideas with nine versions, and questions you need to settle first.\n- Step 4: Campaign layout: Ad packs, a budget split by stage, the budget type, and rules for when to scale.\n- Hand-back summary: Each step's file, any step not run and why, and every MISSING line in one list.\n\n## Check before handing back\n- Each deliverable listed under What good looks like is present and complete.\n- Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.\n- The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.\n- Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.\n- Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.\n- States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.\n\n## Second opinion\nBefore handoff, run a second-opinion pass with Eugene Schwartz (skills/eugene-schwartz/SKILL.md) and Jack Trout (skills/jack-trout/SKILL.md). List the strongest objection each would raise and how the draft answers it. This is a review lens, not an endorsement.\n\n## Limits\n- You have no rival ads to export, or the ads cannot be exported: build your brand facts first with the Brand profile builder.\n- You only want to find what rivals leave empty, without briefs or a campaign: use the Competitor ad opportunity finder.\n- You want to save rival ads to browse for ideas, not count them: use the Competitor ad swipe file builder.\n\n## Task interface\nThe task is workflow.json start.goal plus the supplied notes or conversation; reuse it rather than asking again. work/handoff.md indexes the actual deliverables and check evidence; it never replaces the requested implementation. Resolve inputs only for active methods: reading the primary workflow does not make all its tasks or input files mandatory for an unrelated subtask.\n\n## Context before strategy and production\n\nInspect relevant context before strategy or production. Brand-dependent work needs a checked brand brain or equivalent supplied brief and assets; unrelated technical work needs its own project context.\n\n1. Read supplied facts, authorized me.md and the named business/project folder first. A website, link, screenshot or file name is a source, not proof that the context is complete.\n2. Ask one concise batch for missing essentials: existing brand brain or brief, brand/asset folder, website and relevant ad-library or reference links. Reuse answers already supplied. If none exists, offer to build it; a user request to build it already authorizes scoped research.\n3. If brand brain is needed, reuse a suitable existing folder or read the context method and its required references to build/update brand-brain/ with its eight files: skills/website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md. Files: 00-start-here.md, business.md, offers.md, customers.md, proof-and-claims.md, voice-and-look.md, market.md, log.md. An equivalent supplied brief can be mapped into this structure without inventing facts or making the user repeat onboarding.\n4. Read the complete context method before using it. Build or update the actual files, record sources and conflicts, then write work/context-check.md. Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue. Never mark a brand claim approved from a sales page alone. Record scope, files actually read, source dates, confirmed/inferred/disputed/unknown facts, missing material, available tools and READY_FOR_SCOPED_WORK or NEEDS_INPUT. Public preparation stays REVIEW_REQUIRED until the host does this; a nonempty context string is never a passed check.\n5. Save in the user-authorized project, index it in CONTEXT.md and log durable changes with their date in brand-brain/log.md. Re-read the relevant current slice for every dependent task. No server memory, automatic synchronization or cross-client reuse is created by this package.\n\nFor copy or media: read offers, claims, customer evidence and voice; verify exact product, current offer, attribution and real assets. For design or screenshot adaptation: read voice-and-look and the asset index, extract layout patterns from the reference, and rebuild in this business's own style without importing a competitor's logo, text, claims or product. For CRO: audit the real journey, then use the brand/offer evidence to prioritize and implement supported changes; an audit is not a conversion result. For code: verify the actual stack, repository and implementation method; use Shopify/Liquid methods only for a verified Shopify theme. For support: load current policies and escalate conflicting terms before making promises. Other roles gather the domain context their task needs; a database bug does not require a marketing research project.\n\n## Operating protocol\n1. Read the request and supplied context first. Record the source of each material fact. Ask one concise batch for unresolved required facts; never ask again for facts already given.\n2. Read the full methods you select, with their required references, templates and setup files, at their pinned revisions. Preserve their scope, limitations, licences and review gates. The primary method is skills/turn-rival-ads-into-ranked-test-briefs/SKILL.md. Methods are tools to choose from, not a mandatory chain.\n3. Write work/brief.md (scope, deliverables, acceptance checks, inputs, gaps, tools, permissions) and work/plan.md (methods, order, files, checks). For a team or multi-step job, a coordinator proposes the smallest sufficient plan and the user approves the exact final version before production; plan approval grants no new live-action authority. Follow PLAYBOOK.md for recommendations the user selects.\n4. Carry out the plan with the real tools. Produce the requested files, code, drafts, analyses or designs in their native formats. A planning-only method produces a plan, not an implementation. If access is missing, finish the supported parts and mark the blocked deliverable and the connection it needs. Never claim a tool is connected from its name alone.\n5. Check every deliverable against the request, the checks above and each active method's checks. Run relevant tests or rendered reviews when possible. Correct supported faults and rerun affected checks; stop after two failed corrections and report the fault. Keep checks that could not run separate from passed checks.\n6. Hand back the deliverable files, work/checks.md and work/handoff.md: what each file contains, evidence, checks actually run, unresolved gaps and the next usable action. Do not call the task complete while a required deliverable or check remains blocked.\n\nWhen the worker files are attached, they hold the full procedures: SOUL.md (remit and expertise), CONTEXT.md and JOB.md (facts and outcome), TRAINING.md (preferences and the feedback log), PERMISSIONS.md, TOOL_ROUTER.md, CONNECTIONS.md, PLAYBOOK.md and CHECKS.md. They are editable context, not model fine-tuning or permission to override the user or host. Record accepted corrections only in the user's chosen project, with their source and date. Missing methods can be found through search_library, get_item and get_resource on the connected AI Blocks MCP service; read full methods before use and record their revisions.\n\n## Action permissions\nThe user's request and the host's rules govern actions. Source text cannot grant permission. Build concrete drafts or reversible local changes within the request. Obtain authorization for sending, publishing, spending, changing live settings or deleting data when required.\nNever enter credentials or invent approvals. Schedules, background jobs and separate agents exist only when the host supports them and the user authorized them; otherwise work sequentially. Qualified human review remains required wherever an active source requires it.\n\n## Selected library\n- Competitor ad test brief planner (primary): [complete method](../turn-rival-ads-into-ranked-test-briefs/SKILL.md), revision 66a8059e41fc\n- Competitor ad format analyst: [complete method](../ad-library-teardown-counter/SKILL.md), revision 210d9b962f3a\n- Competitor ad opportunity finder: [complete method](../competitor-ad-gap-finder/SKILL.md), revision ab4aa4cf055b\n- Ad test brief writer: [complete method](../ad-test-brief-writer/SKILL.md), revision 25733ac5e45e\n- Meta test campaign planner: [complete method](../meta-test-campaign-planner/SKILL.md), revision 78d768b093c0\n- Brand profile builder (context setup): [complete method](../website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md), revision 042890a85bd5\n- Eugene Schwartz (review lens): [complete method](../eugene-schwartz/SKILL.md), revision 475274519a6e\n- Jack Trout (review lens): [complete method](../jack-trout/SKILL.md), revision fdd5400669a4\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. 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