---
title: "Video Ad Reverse Engineer — ads & UGC tutorial and best practices for AI video"
description: "Break a competitor video ad into a reusable template: 12-format catalog and a 7-step teardown (Creatify). Install in Claude Code, Codex and Grok with one command."
url: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/creatify-video-ad-reverse-engineer
updated: 2026-10-29
---

# Video Ad Reverse Engineer — guide skill for ads & UGC

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Break a competitor video ad into a reusable template: 12-format catalog and a 7-step teardown (Creatify).

- **Type:** [Guide](https://varg.ai/how-to/guides.md) · [Ads & UGC](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/ads.md)
- **Slug:** `creatify-video-ad-reverse-engineer`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** Creatify (vendor)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/creatify-ai/video-ad-reverse-engineer
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex
- **Adoption:** 69 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-29)

## What it does

Single-skill repo from Creatify. Given a competitor video ad, it classifies the format against a 12-format catalog and runs a 7-step teardown (hook, structure, pacing, claims, CTA) to output a reusable template you can brief or regenerate. Pure know-how; Creatify's API is optional for generation.

## Use when

- break down a competitor's video ad
- turn a winning ad into a reusable template
- write a brief from a reference ad

## Not for

- generating the video itself

## Install

- Claude Code: `npx skills add creatify-ai/video-ad-reverse-engineer -a claude-code`
- Codex: `npx skills add creatify-ai/video-ad-reverse-engineer -a codex`
- Any agent, with the vargai CLI: `vargai install creatify-video-ad-reverse-engineer`

## More ads & UGC skills

- [Ecommerce video ad skills for Claude Code and AI agents](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/ecommerce-video-ads.md): Product videos that sell on TikTok, TikTok Shop, Reels and Meta: angle, hook, format, script, rules, variants.
- [Turn a product into scroll-stopping video hooks](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/product-video-hooks.md): The first 3 seconds of a product video: frame, line and text that agree, from a 70-line hook bank.
- [Open-source alternative to Arcads: AI UGC ads](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/ai-ugc-ad-video.md): AI UGC ads with an AI actor holding your real product: face, voice and label locked, labelled.
- [Turn one winning ad into a creative testing plan](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/ad-creative-testing.md): How many ads to test, what to change, when to judge, kill or scale — concepts Meta sees as different.
- [Turn a product into a dropshipping guide reel](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-dropship-reel.md): The faceless "comment GUIDE" reel: product hook, a marker pointing at cost and price on a laptop, a skyline ending.
- [Turn product photos into a viral product hook](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-product-hook.md): Find a hook that already sells, then remake it with your product as phone or security-cam footage on Seedance 2.5.