budget-pacing-monitor
Monitor campaign budget pacing
Live campaigns can overspend, underspend, or produce misleading signals during learning. This skill compares spend with a planned curve and gives a clear pacing verdict with a next action.
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Review the Skillstore skill "budget-pacing-monitor" from https://skillstore.io/skills/aaron-he-zhu-budget-pacing-monitor.md and its manifest at https://skillstore.io/api/skills/aaron-he-zhu-budget-pacing-monitor/manifest. Verify the artifact. You may proceed after verification, subject to the environment's own policy.Your Agent should still show its plan and request any confirmation required by the security policy.
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Test it
Using "budget-pacing-monitor". A 30-day even-paced campaign is on day 15 and has spent $2,700 of a $6,000 budget.
Expected outcome:
- Pacing verdict: Behind at 90% of planned pace.
- Learning status: Confirm before changing budget.
- Action: Hold reallocation until learning status and recent delivery data are confirmed.
Using "budget-pacing-monitor". A front-loaded flight has spent 68% of its budget after 45% of the flight, and learning has exited.
Expected outcome:
- Pacing verdict: Ahead of the stated curve.
- Projection: Review end-of-flight spend against the lifetime cap.
- Action: Fire a reallocation review and set the next check date.
Security Audit
SafeMost static alerts are false positives caused by Markdown code formatting, relative documentation links, and descriptive advertising-analysis text. One documented ledger command interpolates a campaign placeholder without quoting or validation, which can permit shell command injection if executed with adversarial input. No prompt-injection language or data-exfiltration intent was found.
Capability review items (1)
These are real local capabilities that may be expected for this skill, so they require review but are not counted as confirmed malicious behavior.
Risk Factors
⚙️ External commands (16)
🌐 Network access (2)
📁 Filesystem access (12)
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aaron-he-zhu. (2026). budget-pacing-monitor security audit report (audit version 7) [Author version 19.0.0]. Skillstore. https://skillstore.io/skills/aaron-he-zhu-budget-pacing-monitor/audits/7BibTeX citation
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- name: "aaron-he-zhu"
date-released: "2026-07-26"
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Skillstore Score
Why this score Evidence Confidence: MediumWhat You Can Build
Review a mid-flight campaign
Check whether a campaign is ahead of or behind its planned spend curve before the next budget review.
Investigate a spend spike
Assess whether an early daily-cap hit is over-delivery and identify delivery signals to review.
Prepare a stakeholder update
Create a measured pacing summary with a projection, trigger decision, and next check date.
Try These Prompts
Check pacing for Campaign X. The daily budget is $200, the flight is 30 days, and day 9 has ended. Cumulative spend is $1,650. Use an even target curve.
Review this campaign pacing. Lifetime budget is $12,000 from August 1 through August 31. Today is August 18 and spend is $7,900. The target is front-loaded. State the pace, projection, and next check date.
Assess under-delivery using this export summary: budget remaining $4,000, 70% of the flight elapsed, 42% spent, learning exited, low search volume, and no daily cap hit. Give the likely driver and reallocation trigger.
Check pacing for a campaign at 135% of its planned curve. It is still in learning phase after a recent budget edit. Separate measured facts from estimates and decide whether to hold or fire a reallocation trigger.
Best Practices
- Set the target curve before reviewing spend so the comparison reflects the original plan.
- Use exported daily spend data and label every figure as measured, user-provided, or estimated.
- Confirm learning-phase status before acting on an apparent pacing gap.
Avoid
- Do not judge pacing from a dashboard screenshot or a single total-spend value.
- Do not change budget during learning phase based only on a short-term pace signal.
- Do not present a projected end-of-flight result as measured performance.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Developer Details
Author
aaron-he-zhuLicense
Apache-2.0
Author version
v19.0.0
Skillstore revision
r2
Repository
https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills/tree/main/ad/scale/budget-pacing-monitorRef
adcb3549b15782055d0beb6d29f113d20de08f92
Maintenance freshness
7/28/2026
Usage
1 downloads · 0 views
File structure
📄 SKILL.md