What is google-ads-mcp CLAUDE.md?

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.

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.

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.

How itallstartedwithaidea/google-ads-mcp configures Claude Code

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Borrowing it

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Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itallstartedwithaidea/google-ads-mcp

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When invoked 1,591 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

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Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.01591	$0.01591
Opus 5.5	$0.00636	$0.00636
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00318	$0.00318
Haiku 4.5	$0.00159	$0.00159

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 221b9d27ff72, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

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 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.

CLAUDE.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Google Ads MCP — googleadsagent.ai

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:

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

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 lines

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.

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google-ads-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository itallstartedwithaidea/google-ads-mcp (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,591 tokens to every session, about $0.0064 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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