The e-commerce ad kit for AI agents

Turn the AI agent you already use into your ad team

Ad Engine is a kit of skills and local tools that plugs into Claude Code, Codex, Claude Desktop or Cursor. It teaches your agent the whole job: break down an ad that is already winning, rebuild it around your product, generate the scenes, cut the video in the editor you prefer and check it before it goes to Meta or TikTok.

See a run

Install via terminal

curl -fsSL https://runargusapp.com/install.sh | sh

Then open your agent and run /adengine-setup. See requirements

From install to a finished product ad

How it works

Your agent does the work. Ad Engine gives it the ad know-how, the tools and a place to keep what it learns, and all of it runs on your machine.

  1. 01

    Your agent

    Local

    Claude Code, Codex, Claude Desktop or Cursor. You describe the ad you want in plain words and it runs the job.

  2. 02

    The ad kit

    Local

    Playbooks for breakdowns, angles, hooks, scripts, storyboards and edits, plus a local MCP server that does the heavy lifting.

  3. 03

    Your providers

    Your API keys

    Product scenes, B-roll, voiceover and presenters from the generators you already pay for, on your own API keys.

  4. 04

    Your editor

    Local

    The built-in renderer, Resolve Studio, CapCut, Premiere Pro, or a project file for Final Cut.

  5. 05

    Ready to test

    Out

    A finished 9:16 ad with captions, a clean mix and a QA report, plus project files if you want to tweak it.

Inside every run Break down the winner Adapt the angle Storyboard Generate Edit QA

Keep the editor you use

Ad Engine drives your editor for you. Pick where the cut should land and your agent builds it there, with the project ready for your own tweaks.

Default · no GPU needed

Built-in

No editor installed? The kit renders the finished ad itself, on any laptop.

Included

Studio · fully automated

DaVinci Resolve

Your agent builds the project, the timeline and the render inside Resolve Studio.

Optional

Real drafts

CapCut

Your agent writes a real CapCut draft that opens with every cut and caption in place.

Optional

Live panel · project files

Premiere / FCP

Your agent builds the cut live in Premiere Pro through a local panel, and hands Final Cut Pro a project file.

Optional

Edits that follow ad craft

These are the moves a strong e-commerce editor makes on every spoken ad. Your agent makes them in your editor and saves a record, so you can see exactly what changed and why.

#1 Tighten

Dead space, gone

Pauses and dead air come out of the voiceover so the first seconds hold attention, and every cut is written to a saved cut map.

#2 Pace

Faster, same voice

A little extra pace keeps the pitch where it was, so a quicker read still sounds like the same person.

#3 Present

Lip-synced presenter

A presenter or creator-style talking head synced to your voiceover, generated through the provider you bring.

#4 Caption

Captions on every word

Phrase captions timed to every spoken word for sound-off scrolling, plus a hook card for the opening seconds.

#5 Key

Green-screen keying

Pull the presenter off a green screen and put them over product shots, PDP screenshots or lifestyle footage.

#6 Deliver

Mixed and archived

Loudness matched for the feed, and every master archived with its project so a winning ad can be rebuilt into new variants.

Learned layerVersionedRollbackGitHub backup

Skills that learn on the job

Install

Every ad teaches your agent something about your brand. It writes what it learned into a private layer on top of each skill, so the next concept starts where the last one finished.

What it records

  • AYour corrections
  • BFixed QA failures
  • CWinning patterns

Where it goes

Learned layerPrivate · yours
Base skillShips with Ad Engine · untouched

How it's kept

Records from you

Corrections

Your edits stick

  • Changes you make to a cut, caption or pace
  • Written to the skill that made the call
  • Read on the next run

Records from QA

Fixes

Failures stay fixed

  • The QA check that failed
  • The fix that made it pass
  • Recorded, not just applied

Records from new work

Patterns

What worked, kept

  • Hooks, pacing and scenes that worked on a new concept
  • Available when a similar brief comes in

Stays in your hands

Control

Yours to undo

  • A private learned layer
  • Every change versioned
  • Roll back to any version
  • Backed up to your own GitHub

The base skills stay untouched. The learned layer sits on top, so rolling it back returns a skill to exactly how it shipped.

Requirements

A normal computer and the agent you already use. No GPU needed.

System
macOS, Windows or Linux
Required
Media
ffmpeg, installed automatically if missing
Required
Agent
Claude Code, Codex, Claude Desktop or Cursor
Required
Providers
Your own API keys for the image, video, voice and presenter providers you pick
Required
Editor
DaVinci Resolve Studio, CapCut or Premiere Pro, driven live. Final Cut through project files. Without one, the built-in renderer finishes the ad.
Optional

FAQ

Ad Engine is the kit your agent uses to make ads. It edits through the editor you already use, whether that is DaVinci Resolve Studio, CapCut, Premiere Pro or Final Cut, and it has a built-in renderer for anyone who does not have one. You keep your workflow and your project files.

Short-form video ads for e-commerce: creator-style UGC, founder-to-camera, podcast clips, green-screen reactions, voiceover with B-roll and animated explainers. Most runs start from an ad that is already winning in your category, which your agent breaks down and rebuilds around your product, your claims and your brand voice.

A local MCP server and the full Ad Engine skill suite, registered with the agent you already use: Claude Code, Codex, Claude Desktop or Cursor. The server and your projects live on your machine, and your agent calls them like any other tool. If ffmpeg is missing, the installer adds a private copy for Ad Engine.

When Premiere Pro 2020 or later is installed, setup also connects it: a local Premiere MCP server plus a bridge panel inside Premiere. The panel is an unsigned Adobe CEP extension, so setup turns on Adobe's PlayerDebugMode setting for your user account, only for the CEP version your Premiere Pro uses. That setting lets any unsigned CEP panel load in Adobe apps on that version, including panels from other vendors. Uninstalling Ad Engine puts the previous value back.

Your projects, edits and learned skills stay local. Generation steps call the image, video, voice and presenter providers you choose, with your own API keys, so whatever you send to a provider goes to that provider under your account.

No. The built-in renderer runs on an ordinary laptop. If you would rather finish in DaVinci Resolve Studio, CapCut, Premiere Pro or Final Cut, your agent builds the edit there instead.

Dead-space tightening with a saved cut map, pitch-preserved speed changes, a lip-synced presenter, word-accurate phrase captions, hook cards, green-screen keying, loudness matched for the feed and archive exports, all assembled from the storyboard your agent built from the winning ad.

When you correct an edit, when a QA failure gets fixed, or when a new concept turns up a pattern worth keeping, the agent writes it to a private learned layer on top of the relevant skill. Every change is versioned, any version can be rolled back, and the layer is backed up to your own GitHub.

Installing Ad Engine needs no sign-up. Generation is billed by each provider directly on your own keys, and your agent runs on the subscription you already have.

Get Ad Engine

Install in one line

Run it in a terminal, then open your agent and run /adengine-setup. It walks you through your keys and your editor, and then you can hand it the first ad to rebuild.

curl -fsSL https://runargusapp.com/install.sh | sh

No sign-up needed. The installer runs without sudo or admin rights, and it is safe to run again.