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reddit-ads

Reddit Ads API - campaigns, targeting, conversions, agentic optimization

38

Quality

37%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

No eval scenarios have been run

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Advisory

Suggest reviewing before use

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Security

2 findings — 2 medium severity. This skill can be installed but you should review these findings before use.

Medium

W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent)

What this means

The skill fetches instructions or code from an external URL at runtime, and the fetched content directly controls the agent’s prompts or executes code. This dynamic dependency allows the external source to modify the agent’s behavior without any changes to the skill itself.

Why it was flagged

Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill calls the Anthropic LLM at runtime (via the Anthropic SDK, i.e. the Anthropic API at https://api.anthropic.com), and the model responses are parsed into JSON recommendations that the service directly executes (pause/scale/update ads), so external content from that URL directly controls agent actions.

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Medium

W009: Direct money access capability detected (payment gateways, crypto, banking)

What this means

The skill is specifically designed for direct financial operations, giving the agent the ability to move money or execute financial transactions — such as payment processing, cryptocurrency operations, banking integrations, or market order execution.

Why it was flagged

Direct money access detected (high risk: 1.00). The skill explicitly exposes Reddit Ads API methods to create and update campaigns/ad groups with budget fields (e.g., campaign.createCampaign with budget_total_amount_micros, updateCampaign, createAdGroup/updateAdGroup including budget_total_amount_micros and bid_amount_micros). The optimizer service automatically executes recommendations that scale budgets and update ad groups (calls to updateAdGroup to change budget, pause/enable ads, adjust bids). The API reference even includes an account funding endpoint. These are specific, programmatic controls over ad spend (i.e., updating budgets and bids), not generic browsing or read-only reporting — therefore it grants direct financial execution authority over ad spend.

Repository
alinaqi/claude-bootstrap
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