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budget-guardian
Monitors a Google Ads MCC for monthly budget overruns and sends Slack alerts at 100% and 120% of monthly budget per account. Designed to catch hijacked accounts, runaway PMax campaigns, and pacing-sheet formula errors within 2 hours instead of 24+. Alert-only — never pauses campaigns. Runs on GitHub Actions on a 2-hour cron. Use this skill when the user asks to "set up budget guardian", "install spend alerts", monitor MCC spend, or build a tripwire against unauthorized PMax campaigns.
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 77 stars are split between them (about 8 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 53/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 90f0e419f2d8, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
What its code does:
- Reads environment variables and sends network requests with them API clients do this to send your key to the service. Check which service it talks to.
- Makes network requestsSKILL.md, workflows/budget_guardian/ads_api.py:32, workflows/budget_guardian/slack.py:24 and 1 more
- Uses dependencies without a pinned version A later version of a dependency could change what runs.requirements.txt:1 and 4 more
Web addresses in its code:
- googleads.googleapis.comworkflows/budget_guardian/ads_api.py:16
- googleapis.comworkflows/_shared/google_auth.py:13
- oauth2.googleapis.comworkflows/_shared/google_ads_auth.py:21
These are the sites named in the code, so it's where your data could go. It isn't a complete list: code can build addresses while it runs, and a few of these may be links rather than calls. Whatever you send also goes to the AI model you use.
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| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onebudget-guardian fourteenwm/ppc-ai-skills · Skill | 53 | ★ 77 | ≈126 always | 2mo ago |
| design-guardian wlsdks/ontology-atlas · Subagent Both about guardian | 60 | ★ 143 | ≈53 in chat | 16d ago |
| guardian platformplatform/PlatformPlatform · Subagent Both about guardian | 59 | ★ 442 | ≈45 in chat | 1mo ago |
| hermes-attestation-guardian prompt-security/clawsec · Skill Both about guardian | 69 | ★ 1.1k | ≈35 always | 16d ago |
| budget-pacing logly/mureo · Skill Both about budget and pacing | 56 | ★ 51 | ≈139 always | 16d ago |
| ads-budget AgriciDaniel/claude-ads · Skill Same job: ads | 80 | ★ 10k | ≈78 always | 19d ago |