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OpenAI Ads MCP

NPM · OPENAI-ADS-MCP · 3 COMPONENTS · SCANNED SEP 20

OpenAI Ads MCP for ChatGPT Ads campaigns, creatives, audiences, insights, and conversions.

0 this week 89 Trust /100
Trust breakdown (7 categories)

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →

Supply Chain Security98
  • No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
  • No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
  • No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
  • 31 of 96 dependencies flagged as unhealthy. View diagnostics → Partial
Provenance & Transparency97
  • Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
  • Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to trakkr-aisearch/openai-ads-mcp). View diagnostics → Pass
  • Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
  • Actively maintained (last published 59 days ago).Pass
  • Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. See how to fix → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability70
  • 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).Pass
  • AI-judged instruction clarity (fair).Partial
  • Tool/resource definitions use about 1965 tokens (~70/item across 28 items; 27 tools + 1 resources), lean.Pass
  • Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management90
  • Stability observed for 27 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage67
  • 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
  • 0% of tool parameters carry a description.Fail
Tool Safety100
  • No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
  • All 1 tool(s) whose name or description implies an irreversible operation declare an MCP destructiveHint annotation.Pass
  • An AI judge read all 29 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
  • Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Install

How do I install the OpenAI Ads MCP server?

OpenAI Ads MCP runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y openai-ads-mcp. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

npm · openai-ads-mcp

# add to Claude Code
claude mcp add trakkr-aisearch-openai-ads-mcp -- npx -y openai-ads-mcp
// .cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trakkr-aisearch-openai-ads-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "openai-ads-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
// .vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "trakkr-aisearch-openai-ads-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "openai-ads-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
# add to Codex CLI
codex mcp add trakkr-aisearch-openai-ads-mcp -- npx -y openai-ads-mcp
// opencode.json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "trakkr-aisearch-openai-ads-mcp": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "openai-ads-mcp"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
# add to OpenClaw
openclaw mcp add trakkr-aisearch-openai-ads-mcp --command npx --arg -y --arg openai-ads-mcp
# ~/.hermes/config.yaml
mcp_servers:
  trakkr-aisearch-openai-ads-mcp:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "openai-ads-mcp"]
// ~/.netclaw/config/netclaw.json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "trakkr-aisearch-openai-ads-mcp": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "openai-ads-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
# add to Vellum
assistant mcp add trakkr-aisearch-openai-ads-mcp -t stdio -c npx -a -y openai-ads-mcp
// mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trakkr-aisearch-openai-ads-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "openai-ads-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
Changelog

Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.

  • 19 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 83 to 87. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 25 days of observed history at the previous scan, 26 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 17 Sept 26 −3
    • Stability: pass → 0.80 functional
  • 16 Sept 26 +1
    • Stability: 0.97 → pass security
  • 14 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 90 to 93. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 27 days of observed history at the previous scan, 28 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 12 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 83 to 87. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 25 days of observed history at the previous scan, 26 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 9 Sept 26 −3
    • Stability: pass → 0.77 functional
  • 8 Sept 26 +1
    • Stability: 0.97 → pass security
  • 6 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 90 to 93. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 27 days of observed history at the previous scan, 28 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

Diagnostics

Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.

Captured 20 Sept 2026 · Analysed npm/openai-ads-mcp@0.1.7

Provenance Verified

A signed build attestation was found and verified, binding this exact artifact to the source repository it claims to come from.

Result Verified
Ecosystem npm
Reason Verified
Discovered via Registry attestation endpoint
Source repo trakkr-aisearch/openai-ads-mcp
Certificate issuer https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com
Certificate SAN https://github.com/trakkr-aisearch/openai-ads-mcp/.github/workflows/publish-npm.yml@refs/tags/openai-ads-mcp-v0.1.7
Rekor log index 2216582625
Predicate type https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1
Subject digest sha512:3e1b254860c4c483ee027d6f0dd27b9c7950bd098a8c40f1ff328172976c943dad850e418950733950f13d32dde314a8162e236f7e9d129c28045a235

Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →

Dependencies 96 packages
Packages resolved 96
Stale 31
Tree resolution Complete

Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →

MCP tools · 27 exposed · ~1,734 tokens

The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →

Tool Tokens
build_campaign ~90

Build one paused campaign tree with one ad group and multiple paused ads, with guarded budget handling.

NameTypeReqDescription
ad_group
ads
bidding_typestring
budget_usdnumberyes
confirm_budgetboolean
conversion_event_setting_idstring
idempotency_keystring
namestringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

bulk_ab_test_hints ~53

Create multiple paused chat_card ad variants under one ad group for a clean A/B test.

NameTypeReqDescription
ad_group_idstringyes
idempotency_keystring
variants

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

create_ad ~101

Create a paused ad. chat_card creatives require target_url and file_id.

NameTypeReqDescription
ad_group_idstringyes
bodystringyes
creative_typestringyes
file_idstring
idempotency_keystring
namestringyes
pricestring
statusstring
target_urlstring
titlestringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

create_ad_group ~88

Create a paused ad group under a campaign with bid config and optional context hints.

NameTypeReqDescription
billing_eventstringyes
campaign_idstringyes
context_hints
idempotency_keystring
max_bid_usdnumberyes
namestringyes
product_set
statusstring

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

create_campaign ~118

Create an OpenAI Ads campaign, safely paused by default, with a guarded lifetime budget.

NameTypeReqDescription
bidding_typestring
budget_usdnumberyes
confirm_budgetboolean
conversion_event_setting_ids
descriptionstring
end_timeinteger
idempotency_keystring
locations
modestring
namestringyes
start_timeinteger
statusstring

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

draft_context_hints ~55

Draft deterministic context_hints for an ad group from product, audience, intent, and keywords.

NameTypeReqDescription
audiencestring
intentstring
keywords
productstringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_account ~44

Get the authenticated OpenAI Ads account. Use this first to verify that OPENAI_ADS_API_KEY works and to read account id, name, timezone, currency, and settings.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_ad ~29

Get one ad by id, including review_status and creative metadata.

NameTypeReqDescription
ad_idstringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_ad_group ~25

Get one ad group by id.

NameTypeReqDescription
ad_group_idstringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_audience ~24

Get one custom audience by id.

NameTypeReqDescription
audience_idstringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_campaign ~22

Get one campaign by id.

NameTypeReqDescription
campaign_idstringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_insights ~145

Get performance insights for account, campaign, ad group, or ad scope. Supports fields, filters, sort, product/country/device segments, time ranges, and cursor pagination.

NameTypeReqDescription
afterstring
aggregation_levelstring
beforestring
entity_idstring
fields
filters
includes
limitinteger
override_segment_group_order
response_formatstring
scopestringyes
segments
sort
time_granularitystring
time_range

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

list_ad_groups ~52

List ad groups for a campaign.

NameTypeReqDescription
afterstring
beforestring
campaign_idstringyes
limitinteger
orderstring

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

list_ads ~52

List ads in an ad group.

NameTypeReqDescription
ad_group_idstringyes
afterstring
beforestring
limitinteger
orderstring

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

list_audiences ~47

List custom audiences for the authenticated ad account.

NameTypeReqDescription
afterstring
beforestring
limitinteger
orderstring

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

list_campaigns ~48

List campaigns in the authenticated ad account with cursor pagination.

NameTypeReqDescription
afterstring
beforestring
limitinteger
orderstring

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

manage_audience ~92

Create, upload, or archive a custom audience.

NameTypeReqDescription
actionstringyes
audience_idstring
descriptionstring
file_idstring
file_sizeinteger
filenamestring
identifier_typestring
members
mimetypestring
namestring

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

manage_conversions ~125

Manage conversion pixels, API keys, event settings, and conversion reporting.

NameTypeReqDescription
actionstringyes
afterstring
aggregation_levelstring
attribution_window_daysinteger
beforestring
client_typestring
custom_event_namestring
entity_ids
event_typestring
limitinteger
namestring
orderstring
source_ids
time_ranges

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

search_geo ~30

Search geo targets for targeting.locations.include and return ids usable in campaign targeting.

NameTypeReqDescription
querystringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

send_conversions ~59

Send conversion events to the OpenAI conversion ingest host after local privacy-safe validation. Use validate_only=true to test a batch without ingesting it.

NameTypeReqDescription
events
pixel_idstringyes
validate_onlyboolean

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

set_ad_group_state ~48

Activate, pause, or archive an ad group. Activation can start delivery when parent and child layers are active.

NameTypeReqDescription
ad_group_idstringyes
statestringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

set_ad_state ~44

Activate, pause, or archive an ad. Activation can start real delivery once parent layers are active.

NameTypeReqDescription
ad_idstringyes
statestringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

set_campaign_state ~44

Activate, pause, or archive a campaign. Activation can start real spend when child layers are active.

NameTypeReqDescription
campaign_idstringyes
statestringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

update_ad ~84

Update ad name, creative, or status.

NameTypeReqDescription
ad_idstringyes
bodystring
creative_typestring
file_idstring
namestring
pricestring
statusstring
target_urlstring
titlestring

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

update_ad_group ~75

Update ad group fields, including bid config and context hints.

NameTypeReqDescription
ad_group_idstringyes
billing_eventstring
context_hints
max_bid_usdnumber
namestring
product_set
statusstring

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

update_campaign ~98

Update campaign fields. Budget changes use the same ceiling guard as create_campaign.

NameTypeReqDescription
budget_usdnumber
campaign_idstringyes
confirm_budgetboolean
conversion_event_setting_ids
descriptionstring
end_timeinteger
locations
namestring
start_timeinteger
statusstring

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

upload_creative ~42

Upload a creative image by image_url or local file_path and receive a file_id.

NameTypeReqDescription
file_pathstring
image_urlstring

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

Common questions

What is the OpenAI Ads MCP server?

OpenAI Ads MCP is listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.trakkr-aisearch/openai-ads-mcp. OpenAI Ads MCP for ChatGPT Ads campaigns, creatives, audiences, insights, and conversions. This page covers its npm package (openai-ads-mcp).

Is the OpenAI Ads MCP server safe to use?

OpenAI Ads MCP scores 89 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 20 September 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. Its build provenance is signed and verified. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

What tools does the OpenAI Ads MCP server expose?

OpenAI Ads MCP exposes 27 tools: get_account, list_campaigns, get_campaign, create_campaign, update_campaign, and 22 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,734 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

Is the OpenAI Ads MCP server still maintained?

OpenAI Ads MCP is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 20 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

What licence is the OpenAI Ads MCP server under?

OpenAI Ads MCP declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.