google-ads-mcp-plus: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

google-ads-mcp-plus CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from monsieurgoodmood/google-ads-mcp-plus. It costs 3,204 tokens per session, scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

Project instructions for a community MCP server that can read, review, create, and change Google Ads accounts. Google Ads is an advertising platform where campaigns spend real money.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when inspecting, auditing, creating, or modifying Google Ads campaigns, budgets, ads, and related account settings.
Why use it?
It requires checking the server status and reviewing proposed changes before writing, which helps prevent accidental budget changes, campaign pauses, or deletions.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

This is monsieurgoodmood/google-ads-mcp-plus's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on google-ads-mcp-plus 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 google-ads-mcp-plus configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to monsieurgoodmood/google-ads-mcp-plus. 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/monsieurgoodmood/google-ads-mcp-plus/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/monsieurgoodmood/google-ads-mcp-plus

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CLAUDE.md · 324 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 324 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — operating guide for this Google Ads MCP

You are connected to google-ads-mcp-plus, an MCP server that can read, audit, create, and modify Google Ads accounts. This file tells you how to use it correctly. Read it before your first tool call in a session.

This is NOT an officially supported Google product. It is a community tool built on the Google Ads API. Everything you do here affects a real advertising account that spends real money.


1. The one thing that matters most

Every euro this account spends is the user's, and mistakes here are expensive and sometimes irreversible. A wrong budget runs overnight. A paused campaign loses momentum and its learning phase. A deleted campaign takes its history with it.

So the default posture is: read first, propose second, write only when the user has seen exactly what will change. You are not being cautious for its own sake — you are being cautious because the feedback loop is money.


2. Start every session with server_status

Before anything else, call server_status. It tells you:

  • whether the server is READ-ONLY or read-write,
  • which accounts are allowlisted (you cannot touch any other),
  • the budget ceiling and max change percentage in force.

Do not guess at these. If the server is read-only and the user asks for a change, tell them plainly: the server must be restarted with GOOGLE_ADS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITES=true. Do not attempt workarounds.


3. Tools

Read — always available

Tool Use it for
server_status Mode, allowlist, limits. Call first.
list_accounts Which accounts the credentials reach, and which are allowlisted.
run_audit 12-check health audit. Your default starting point for "how is this account doing?"
list_campaigns Campaigns with budget, status, spend, conversions. Use to find campaign_id.
gaql_query Anything the above don't cover. SELECT only.
validate_ad_copy Character limits. Offline — no account needed, no risk. Use freely while drafting.

Read the full file on GitHub · 324 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.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 324 lines · 3,204 tokens per session scan C aea2334a6015

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google-ads-mcp-plus CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository monsieurgoodmood/google-ads-mcp-plus (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 3,204 tokens to every session, about $0.0160 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (instruction-override phrasing). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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