GoogleAdsMCP: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

GoogleAdsMCP CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from bertramdev/GoogleAdsMCP. It costs 367 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A project instruction file describing a Google Ads MCP server, a program that lets an AI assistant access Google Ads through a standard tool interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as context when developing or maintaining this Python server and its Google Ads tools.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents the project’s architecture, technologies, safety rules, and recurring implementation patterns.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: positional $N argument.

This is bertramdev/GoogleAdsMCP's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on GoogleAdsMCP itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything GoogleAdsMCP configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to bertramdev/GoogleAdsMCP. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bertramdev/GoogleAdsMCP/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bertramdev/GoogleAdsMCP

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Opus 5.5 $0.00147 $0.00147
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00073 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00037 $0.00037

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 125c4353705d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

GoogleAdsMCP CLAUDE.md 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 2mo 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.

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Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

CLAUDE.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Project Overview

A comprehensive Google Ads MCP server providing ~47 tools across 9 categories for full read/write access to Google Ads accounts via the MCP protocol.

Tech Stack

  • Python 3.12+, uv for dependency management
  • mcp[cli] (FastMCP) for MCP server
  • google-ads Python client library (API v23)
  • Pydantic v2 for config and models
  • pytest for testing

Architecture

  • src/google_ads_mcp/ — main package
  • src/google_ads_mcp/tools/ — tool modules (one per category)
  • Tools return dicts, never raise exceptions (structured error responses)
  • Removal tools (remove_*) require confirm_removal=True parameter; set_*_status tools have no confirmation guard
  • All logging to stderr (stdio transport requirement)
  • json_response=True on FastMCP for LLM-friendly output

Key Patterns

  • sanitize_customer_id() strips dashes: "123-456-7890" → "1234567890"
  • proto_to_dict() converts protobuf objects to dicts
  • Micros conversion: $1.00 = 1,000,000 micros
  • Lifespan pattern for shared GoogleAdsClient instance
  • Tools registered via decorators in tool modules, imported in tools/__init__.py

Commands

  • uv run google-ads-mcp — start server
  • uv run pytest — run tests
  • uv sync — install dependencies

Conventions

  • Conventional commits (feat:, fix:, docs:, etc.)
  • Google-style docstrings
  • Type hints on all public functions
  • Black formatting, isort for imports
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. 2mo ago First seen · 38 lines · 367 tokens per session scan A 125c4353705d

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GoogleAdsMCP CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository bertramdev/GoogleAdsMCP (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 367 tokens to every session, about $0.0015 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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