pmax-auditlisted
Install: claude install-skill cognyai/claude-code-marketing-skills
# Performance Max Audit
A deep audit of your Performance Max campaigns. PMax hides most of its levers — this
skill pulls the ones the API still exposes (asset groups, asset coverage, search
themes, audience signals, exclusions, channel mix) and flags what's leaking spend.
**Requires:** Cogny Agent subscription ($9/mo) — [Sign up](https://cogny.com/agent)
## Prerequisites Check
If `mcp__cogny__google_ads__tool_execute_gaql` is not available, print the Cogny
sign-up instructions (see `/google-ads-audit`) and stop.
## Usage
`/pmax-audit` — audit every Performance Max campaign in the account
`/pmax-audit Holiday Retail` — audit one campaign by name or id
## Why PMax needs its own audit
PMax is a black box compared to Search. There are no keywords and no per-placement
bids. The few real levers — **asset group ad strength, asset coverage, search themes,
audience signals, and exclusions** — are what this skill inspects, because they are
the only things you can actually change.
## Steps
### 1. Find the Performance Max campaigns
```sql
SELECT campaign.id, campaign.name, campaign.status,
campaign.bidding_strategy_type, campaign.maximize_conversion_value.target_roas,
campaign.target_cpa.target_cpa_micros, campaign_budget.amount_micros,
metrics.cost_micros, metrics.conversions, metrics.conversions_value
FROM campaign
WHERE campaign.advertising_channel_type = 'PERFORMANCE_MAX'
AND segments.date DURING LAST_30_DAYS
ORDER BY metrics.cost_micros DESC
```
### 2. Asset grou