/creative-health

name: creative-health
description: "Score ad creative fatigue against baseline, predict days left, brief refreshes. \"are our ads fatiguing\""

/digital-marketing-pro:creative-health

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Purpose

Monitor creative health across all active advertising. Score each creative for fatigue risk, predict when fatigue will impact performance, generate refresh recommendations with specific change suggestions, and create A/B test plans for fatiguing creatives. Creative fatigue is one of the fastest ways to waste ad spend — a high-performing ad that ran too long silently bleeds money as CTR drops, CPM rises, and engagement fades. This command catches fatigue before it costs you, tells you exactly what to change, and gives you a structured test plan to validate the refresh. It covers the full creative lifecycle from launch through maturity to decline, so you always know which creatives are earning their spend and which need attention.

Input Required

The user must provide (or will be prompted for):

• **Active creatives with performance data**: A list of currently running creatives, each with: creative ID or name, channel (paid social, display, search, email, video), current performance metrics (impressions served, frequency or average times shown per user, current CTR, current CPM or CPC, current engagement rate), baseline metrics from the creative's first 7-14 days (baseline CTR, baseline CPM, baseline engagement rate), days running since launch, audience size the creative is serving, and current daily or weekly spend. Can be provided as exported data or pulled from connected ad platform MCPs
• **Channel context**: Which advertising channels the creatives run on — Meta Ads, Google Ads, TikTok Ads, LinkedIn Ads, display networks, programmatic, or email. Each channel has different fatigue dynamics (social fatigues faster than search, video fatigues differently than static)
• **Refresh constraints (optional)**: Any constraints on creative refreshes — brand guidelines that limit visual changes, approval processes that add lead time, production capacity (how many new creatives can be produced per week), or budget for creative production. These constraints shape the refresh recommendations to be actionable within real-world limits
• **Performance thresholds (optional)**: Brand-specific thresholds for when a creative is considered "fatigued" — e.g., "CTR drops 30% from baseline" or "CPM increases 25% from baseline." If not provided, industry-standard thresholds are applied per channel

Process

1. **Load brand context**: Read `~/.claude-marketing/brands/_active-brand.json` for the active slug, then load `~/.claude-marketing/brands/{slug}/profile.json`. Apply brand creative guidelines, historical creative performance benchmarks, known fatigue patterns from past campaigns, and production capacity constraints. Also check for guidelines at `~/.claude-marketing/brands/{slug}/guidelines/_manifest.json` — if present, load visual identity restrictions and messaging guardrails that constrain refresh options. Check for agency SOPs at `~/.claude-marketing/sops/`. If no brand exists, ask: "Set up a brand first (/digital-marketing-pro:brand-setup)?" — or proceed with industry defaults. 2. **Score each creative's health**: Execute `creative-fatigue-predictor.py` with the performance data for each creative. The scoring model evaluates five fatigue signals — CTR ratio (current vs baseline, weighted 30%), CPM ratio (current vs baseline, weighted 20%), engagement ratio (current vs baseline, weighted 20%), frequency or impression saturation (weighted 20%), and time running relative to channel norms (weighted 10%). Each creative receives a health score from 0-100 where 100 is peak health and 0 is fully fatigued, plus a risk-level classification: Healthy (75-100), Watch (50-74), Fatiguing (25-49), or Critical (0-24). 3. **Predict fatigue timeline**: For each creative not yet at Critical risk that has a dated daily or weekly history, run:

   # write with the Write tool first: {performance_history_file} holds [{"date":"2026-01-01","ctr":0.025,"cpm":9.0},{"date":"2026-01-08","ctr":0.022,"cpm":9.6},{"date":"2026-01-15","ctr":0.019,"cpm":10.4}]
   python "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/creative-fatigue-predictor.py" --action predict-fatigue --creative-id {id} --performance-history "@{performance_history_file}"

Give at least 3 rows, one per date, in any order. `date` is YYYY-MM-DD (an ISO timestamp's date part is used), `ctr` is required and `cpm` is optional: leave it out for email or for search bought on CPC, and the forecast uses CTR alone (`signals_used` says which signals it used). The script fits a straight-line trend over calendar days and reports `days_remaining` from the latest row to the first threshold crossing (CTR 30% below, or CPM 30% above, the earliest row). `0` means a threshold is already crossed; `null` means the trend never crosses it, which is not proof the creative is healthy. `confidence` is a label from the number of rows, not a statistical range. Adjust the reading for audience size (smaller audiences fatigue faster), frequency and channel dynamics (social fatigues faster than search) as stated judgment, separate from the script's number. Without a dated history, report the health score only and say that no timeline was projected. 4. **Generate refres