Why Use Claude for Google Ads?

Google Ads management often requires moving between campaigns, ad groups, ads, keywords, budgets, reports, and performance screens.

With this plugin, Claude can act as an AI Google Ads assistant that understands your requests in context.

Ask instead of navigate

Instead of manually building reports:

Show me campaign performance for the last 30 days,
sorted by cost, and identify campaigns with high spend
and weak conversion performance.

Instead of manually checking keywords:

Find keywords that are spending money but producing
poor results.

Instead of navigating campaign settings:

Show me all paused Search campaigns and explain
which ones had the highest spend before being paused.

Key Capabilities

Related MCP server: Google Ads MCP Server

📊 Google Ads Performance & Reporting

Use Claude to retrieve and analyze advertising performance.

• Campaign performance

• Ad group performance

• Keyword performance

• Search terms reports

• Account-level summaries

• Spend and budget analysis

• GAQL queries

• Custom Google Ads reporting

Example:

How did my Google Ads account perform over the last 7 days?

🎯 Campaign Management

Manage campaign structures through natural language.

Supported workflows include:

• Search campaigns

• Display campaigns

• Video campaigns

• Demand Gen campaigns

• Performance Max campaigns

• Campaign listing

• Campaign details

• Campaign creation

• Campaign updates

• Campaign status management

• Campaign removal

Example:

Show me all active campaigns and their daily budgets.

🔎 Search Ads & Keywords

Manage Search advertising workflows from Claude.

• List keywords

• Add keywords

• Specify keyword match types

• Remove keywords

• Update keyword bids

• Analyze keyword performance

• Review search terms

Example:

Find my highest-spending keywords and show their performance.

✍️ AI-Assisted Ad Management

Manage supported Google Ads creative formats through MCP tools.

Supported ad workflows include:

• Responsive Search Ads

• Responsive Display Ads

• Video ads

• Demand Gen ads

• Ad listing

• Ad details

• Ad status management

Example:

Create a responsive search ad for my existing Search ad group
using these headlines and descriptions.

🚀 Performance Max

Manage important Performance Max resources through Claude.

Capabilities include:

• Performance Max campaign creation

• Asset groups

• Asset group details

• Asset management

• Audience signals

• Search theme signals

• Asset performance

• Performance Max placement/channel reporting

Example:

Show me my Performance Max asset groups and their performance.

💰 Google Ads Budgets

Monitor and manage campaign budgets.

• List budgets

• Create shared budgets

• Update budgets

• Check budget utilization

• Compare budget allocation with actual spend

Example:

Which campaigns are using most of their allocated budget?

🏢 Google Ads Accounts & MCC

Work with accounts accessible through your Google Ads API credentials.

• List accessible accounts

• Account information

• MCC account hierarchy

• Customer IDs

• Login customer IDs

Example:

Show me the Google Ads accounts available through my MCC.

Natural Language Google Ads Automation

The goal is to make Google Ads operations conversational.

You can ask Claude things like:

Campaigns

List my active campaigns.

Which campaigns spent the most yesterday?

Show me my paused campaigns.

Create a Search campaign.

Pause this campaign.

Ads

Show me the ads in this ad group.

Create a responsive search ad.

Show me my active ads.

Keywords

Find my highest-spending keywords.

Add these keywords to the ad group.

Update the CPC bid for these keywords.

Performance

How did my account perform this week?

Show me campaigns with high spend and poor performance.

Give me a search terms report.

Optimization

Which campaigns should I investigate first based on performance?

Find underperforming keywords.

Which campaigns are approaching their budgets?

MCP Toolset

The plugin currently exposes approximately 47 Google Ads tools across nine functional areas.

Accounts

Campaigns

Ad Groups

Ads

Keywords

Performance Max

Budgets

Reporting

Utilities

Built for AI-Assisted PPC Management

The plugin is designed around how people actually communicate with an AI agent.

Rather than requiring every Google Ads API parameter to be known beforehand, Claude can translate a natural-language request into the appropriate MCP tool call.

For example:

"Show me campaigns that spent more than $500
in the last 14 days."

Claude can determine the appropriate reporting workflow and return the relevant Google Ads data.

For more advanced workflows, Claude can use GAQL directly:

Run a Google Ads query showing campaign,
cost, clicks, impressions, and conversions
for the last 30 days.

Safety & Confirmation

Google Ads changes can have real financial consequences.

The plugin therefore distinguishes between read operations and potentially destructive or costly actions.

Read operations

Reporting and inspection workflows can retrieve information such as:

• Campaign data

• Ad group data

• Ads

• Keywords

• Performance

• Search terms

• Budgets

• Account information

Write operations

Operations that change advertising resources should be treated carefully.

Before significant changes, Claude should communicate:

• The campaign or resource

• Its current state

• The requested change

• The expected impact

For potentially costly actions such as increasing budgets or launching campaigns, explicit confirmation should be obtained before execution.

Removal operations use an additional server-side confirmation parameter:

confirm_removal=True

Security

Google Ads API credentials remain under your control.

The plugin does not provide tools for:

• Changing Google account access

• Managing Google Ads users

• Changing login credentials

• Managing payment methods

• Managing billing accounts

• Granting account permissions

However, Google Ads API credentials can provide significant access to advertising data and campaign resources.

Protect your credentials carefully.

Never commit credentials

Do not commit:

.env

or Google Cloud service-account JSON credentials to Git.

Use environment variables or a secure local credential-management workflow.

Requirements

You need:

• Python 3.12+

• uv

• A Google Ads API developer token

• A Google Cloud service account

• Google Ads customer access

• An MCC/login customer ID when required by your account structure

• Claude with MCP/plugin support

Installation

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/eneelkant/google-ads-claude-plugin.git
cd google-ads-claude-plugin

Install dependencies:

uv sync

The Claude plugin is located in:

google-ads-manager/

Google Ads API Configuration

Create your local environment file:

cp google-ads-manager/.env.example google-ads-manager/.env

Configure the required Google Ads credentials.

Typical variables include:

GOOGLE_ADS_DEVELOPER_TOKEN=
GOOGLE_ADS_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_PATH=
GOOGLE_ADS_LOGIN_CUSTOMER_ID=
GOOGLE_ADS_CUSTOMER_ID=
GOOGLE_ADS_IMPERSONATED_EMAIL=

Keep .env local and never commit it to GitHub.

Running the MCP Server

From the plugin directory:

cd google-ads-manager
uv sync
uv run google-ads-mcp

The server uses the MCP stdio transport so that Claude can communicate with it locally.

Claude Plugin Configuration

The repository includes a Claude plugin manifest:

google-ads-manager/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

and an MCP configuration:

google-ads-manager/.mcp.json

The MCP configuration uses:

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}

so the plugin can locate its own server installation.

Google Ads Setup Command

The plugin includes a setup command:

/google-ads-setup

Use it as a guided workflow for configuring:

1. Google Ads developer credentials

2. Google Cloud service-account credentials

3. Google Ads customer ID

4. MCC/login customer ID where applicable

5. Local credential storage

6. API connectivity verification

Never paste private credentials into GitHub, public issues, or public chat.

Repository Structure

google-ads-claude-plugin/
│
├── .claude-plugin/
│   └── marketplace.json
│
├── google-ads-manager/
│   ├── .claude-plugin/
│   │   └── plugin.json
│   │
│   ├── commands/
│   │   └── google-ads-setup.md
│   │
│   ├── skills/
│   │   └── google-ads-manager/
│   │       └── SKILL.md
│   │
│   ├── src/
│   │   └── google_ads_mcp/
│   │       ├── server.py
│   │       ├── client.py
│   │       ├── config.py
│   │       ├── helpers.py
│   │       └── tools/
│   │
│   └── .mcp.json
│
├── tests/
├── README.md
├── LICENSE
└── pyproject.toml

Development

Install the development environment:

uv sync

Run tests:

uv run pytest

Run the server locally:

uv run google-ads-mcp

Google Ads AI Agent Use Cases

This plugin is particularly useful for:

PPC Managers

Quickly inspect campaign performance and make controlled changes without manually navigating every Google Ads interface.

Marketing Agencies

Manage multiple Google Ads accounts through MCC access and use Claude for reporting and operational workflows.

Growth Teams

Combine Google Ads data with broader marketing analysis and ask Claude for campaign insights.

Performance Marketers

Investigate spend, keywords, search terms, ads, budgets, and Performance Max performance conversationally.

Automation Specialists

Use MCP tools as building blocks for AI-assisted Google Ads workflows and automation.

Example Workflow

A typical workflow might look like:

You:
"Show me campaigns that spent more than $1,000
in the last 30 days."

Claude:
[Retrieves campaign performance]

You:
"Which of these have the weakest conversion performance?"

Claude:
[Analyzes the returned data]

You:
"Show me the keywords responsible for the spend."

Claude:
[Retrieves keyword/search-term data]

You:
"Pause the worst-performing campaign."

Claude:
[Summarizes the proposed change and requests confirmation]

You:
"Confirm."

Claude:
[Executes the approved change]

This makes Claude useful not only as a reporting interface, but as an AI agent for Google Ads operations.

Google Ads + Claude + MCP

This project combines three components:

Claude

The conversational AI interface and reasoning layer.

MCP

The Model Context Protocol layer that exposes structured Google Ads capabilities to Claude.

Google Ads API

The underlying advertising platform used to read and modify Google Ads resources.

Together, they create a conversational Google Ads management workflow.

Project Status

This project is under active development.

The current plugin provides approximately 47 tools covering Google Ads accounts, campaigns, ad groups, ads, keywords, Performance Max, budgets, reporting, and utilities.

Capabilities and Google Ads API compatibility may evolve as the project develops.

Contributing

Contributions, bug reports, feature requests, and improvements are welcome.

Before submitting changes:

uv run pytest

Please follow the project's contribution guidelines in:

CONTRIBUTING.md

License

Apache License 2.0.

See LICENSE for the complete license text.

Keywords

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