google-ads-mcp CLAUDE.md

google-ads-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from itallstartedwithaidea/google-ads-mcp. It costs 1,591 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for a Google Ads MCP server, a service that lets AI tools call the Google Ads API. They describe the repository structure, installation, authentication, server modes, tools, and deployment components.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when installing or running the server, working with campaigns and keywords, auditing advertising performance, changing bids or budgets, or maintaining its agent and REST interfaces.
Why use it?
The project has separate read, audit, write, documentation, and deployment areas that need to work together. These instructions give an agent the orientation and commands needed to navigate it.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/itallstartedwithaidea/google-ads-mcp/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itallstartedwithaidea/google-ads-mcp

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Security

Grade A, and why

google-ads-mcp 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 6d ago.

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CLAUDE.md · 156 lines

How it starts

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An MCP server + agent SDK for the Google Ads API. Clean Python, full read/write access, works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and Cursor.

Quick orientation

ads_mcp/
├── auth.py          ← credential layer (YAML / OAuth / injected token)
├── coordinator.py   ← FastMCP singleton — import this to register tools
├── server.py        ← entry point (stdio or --http)
├── utils.py         ← proto serialization, micros conversion
└── tools/
    ├── core.py      ← read tools: campaigns, keywords, ads, budgets, search terms
    ├── audit.py     ← auction insights, change history, device/geo performance
    ├── write.py     ← mutate tools: budgets, bids, pause/enable, negatives, campaigns
    └── docs.py      ← GAQL reference + workflow guide (LLM-callable)

deploy/
├── orchestrator.py  ← standalone agentic loop (Anthropic API)
├── tool_executor.py ← maps tool names → tool functions
└── server.py        ← FastAPI REST API with session management

scripts/
├── cli.py           ← interactive terminal agent
└── validate.py      ← deployment health check

Commands

# Install
pip install -e .          # or: uv pip install -e .

# Run MCP server (stdio — Claude Desktop/Cursor)
python -m ads_mcp.server

# Run MCP server (HTTP — remote/cloud)
python -m ads_mcp.server --http

# Run standalone agent (CLI)
python scripts/cli.py
python scripts/cli.py --single "Show me campaign performance for account 1234567890"
python scripts/cli.py --model claude-sonnet-4-6

# Validate deployment
python scripts/validate.py

# Run tests
pytest tests/

Environment setup

cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env — minimum required:
# GOOGLE_ADS_DEVELOPER_TOKEN=...
# GOOGLE_ADS_CREDENTIALS=/path/to/google-ads.yaml

Credentials

Three strategies, tried in order:

  1. GOOGLE_ADS_CREDENTIALS → path to google-ads.yaml (recommended)
  2. GOOGLE_ADS_OAUTH_CONFIG_PATH → OAuth client JSON (desktop flow with auto-refresh)
  3. Injected access_token → for remote OAuth provider flows

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 lines

Changes

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google-ads-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository itallstartedwithaidea/google-ads-mcp (3 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,591 tokens to every session, about $0.0080 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 2026-08-31.