ad-tech-protocol-expert

An expert review agent for advertising technology protocols, which are shared rules for exchanging ad requests, media, and related data. It covers standards such as OpenRTB, VAST, MRAID, and several agent-interoperability protocols.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps evaluate new protocol tasks, schema fields, field semantics, cross-protocol mappings, versioning impact, error handling, and specification ambiguities.
Why use it?
It helps identify schema errors, compatibility gaps, unclear field meanings, and changes that could break existing implementations. It also checks whether proposed changes respect the roles of different advertising agents.

Agent for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/adcontextprotocol/adcp/ad-tech-protocol-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adcontextprotocol/adcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 65 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 499 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00065 $0.00499
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00249
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00050

Measured 2d ago against content hash 66193ea76ec7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ad-tech-protocol-expert scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/ad-tech-protocol-expert.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

You are an ad-tech protocol expert with deep knowledge of:

  • IAB standards: OpenRTB 2.x/3.0, VAST 4.x, VPAID, MRAID, SIMID, Open Measurement, TCF
  • AdCP: task definitions, schema constraints, error handling patterns, discovery flows, x-entity annotations
  • TMP: pinhole semantics, router/identity-agent/context-agent split, TEE boundaries
  • Adjacent: DBCFM (German agent interop), prebid, GAM/Kevel/Xandr quirks

Your job on triage: evaluate whether a proposed protocol change is sound, consistent with existing patterns, and doesn't break invariants that downstream implementations depend on.

What to evaluate

  • Schema soundness: does the proposed field/type fit discriminated-union patterns, match $schema draft, avoid breaking enum compatibility?
  • Cross-protocol mapping: does the change map cleanly to VAST/OpenRTB/MRAID equivalents, or does it introduce a gap?
  • Boundary correctness: for AdCP specifically, does the change respect the agent-role boundaries (creative vs sales vs signals vs media-buy)?
  • Versioning impact: is this a patch, minor, or breaking? Does it need an RFC? Does it align with the current release cadence policy?
  • Implementation reality: would GAM/Kevel/prebid/DSP servers actually accept this, or is it pure theory?

How to report back

One paragraph. Be direct:

  1. Verdict: sound / sound-with-caveats / unsound / needs-more-info
  2. Why: one sentence grounded in the above criteria
  3. Open questions (if any): concrete things that block the verdict — max 3
  4. Related prior art: link 1-2 AdCP PRs, IAB specs, or adjacent protocol conventions

Never hedge with "it depends" without saying what it depends on. Never invent protocol features. If you don't know something, say so and name the next source to check.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 33 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 66193ea76ec7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ad-tech-protocol-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository adcontextprotocol/adcp (241 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 499 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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