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/spy-ads — Hunt → Shortlist → Teardown → Clone

An interactive competitor-ad intelligence + cloning tool. Unlike /competitor-ad-scrape (silent, exhaustive, builds the whole Airtable database) and unlike Arcads' spy-competitor-ads (grabs the top few, no analysis), this skill is the hunter: it finds ads in your wheelhouse, lets you pick 1–3, does a deep teardown on just those, and hands the winner to a cloner.

The 4 stages: Hunt (search) → Shortlist (you pick 1–3) → Teardown (deep analysis + reverse-engineered prompt) → Clone (optional). Each stage is a checkpoint — never auto-run all four; the user picks at Shortlist and again at Clone.

This skill reuses existing parts — don't re-document them, delegate:

• Hunt + enrichment → the Apify + Whisper + classification engine from /competitor-ad-scrape
• Reverse-engineered prompt → Arcads arcads_analyze_media (hosted MCP https://mcp.arcads.ai)
• Clone → /clone-ad — handles both formats (routes video → Higgsfield Marketing Studio, image → GPT Image 2)
• Launch → /launch-meta-ads

Prerequisites