# apply_microsoft_ads_recommendations Apply Microsoft Advertising recommendations by id. THIS SPENDS REAL MONEY AND HAS NO UNDO. It raises daily budgets, adds keywords, widens keywords to broad match, DELETES negative keywords so the account buys more searches, and publishes Microsoft-written ads under the brand’s name, all live at the next auction. THE GATE IS UNLIKE THE OTHER MICROSOFT SPEND SWITCHES, AND confirm:true ALONE IS REFUSED: it proves you meant to apply something, not that you know what THESE ones do, and it reads identically for one keyword suggestion and forty budget raises. So call it ONCE with no confirmation. Nothing is applied, and you get every recommendation named with its campaign, exactly what it changes, the current -> recommended budget where there is one, and Microsoft’s own cost estimate. SHOW THAT LIST TO THE USER, get an explicit yes, then call again with confirm:true, confirmCount: and confirmCostIncrease:. BOTH NUMBERS ARE RECOMPUTED FROM A FRESH READ at that moment, so a recommendation Microsoft has withdrawn, already applied or re-priced since you looked fails the check instead of being applied unseen. If ANY id you name is no longer on offer, NOTHING is applied, not even the ones that still are, because applying part of a set you inspected whole is not what you asked for. Microsoft can reject individual items and apply the rest, so the result reports per item: never call a partial apply a failure, and never call it a success. 0 credits to us; the spend lands on the ad account. Agent View of the PolicyLayer registry record for `apply_microsoft_ads_recommendations`. HTML page: https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/apply-microsoft-ads-recommendations ## Facts - Tool: `apply_microsoft_ads_recommendations` - Server: Hermoso (`https://app.hermoso.ai/mcp`) — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso.md - Homepage: git+https://github.com/hermoso-ai/hermoso.git - Risk category: Write (Medium risk) - Registry record: grade D, identity unverified - Server auth posture: gated - Server CORS policy: * - Server rate-limited: no - Parameters: 0 - Recommended policy verdict: Rate-limited ## Example call (MCP tools/call, JSON-RPC 2.0) ```json { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "tools/call", "params": { "name": "apply_microsoft_ads_recommendations", "arguments": {} } } ``` ## Why apply_microsoft_ads_recommendations is rated Medium An AI agent can call apply_microsoft_ads_recommendations faster than any human can review: one bad instruction and it creates or modifies resources in Hermoso by the hundred, each call as confident as the last. ## Use case AI agents use apply_microsoft_ads_recommendations to create or update resources in Hermoso, usually the action step of a workflow, after the agent has gathered context. Every call changes real data in your Hermoso environment. ## Recommended policy (PolicyLayer) Verdict: **Rate-limited**. Enforced by the PolicyLayer MCP gateway (https://policylayer.com/mcp-gateway) before a call reaches Hermoso: ```json { "version": "1", "default": "deny", "tools": { "apply_microsoft_ads_recommendations": { "limits": [ { "counter": "apply_microsoft_ads_recommendations_rate", "window": "minute", "max": 30, "scope": "grant" } ] } } } ``` ## Other tools on Hermoso (895) - `answer_google_business_question` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/answer-google-business-question.md - `apple_ads_change_history` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/apple-ads-change-history.md - `associate_linkedin_conversion_campaigns` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/associate-linkedin-conversion-campaigns.md - `cancel_openai_ads_audience_operation` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/cancel-openai-ads-audience-operation.md - `cancel_scheduled` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/cancel-scheduled.md - `cancel_stripe_subscription` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/cancel-stripe-subscription.md - `clear_sheet_range` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/clear-sheet-range.md - `create_analytics_custom_dimension` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/create-analytics-custom-dimension.md - `create_openai_ads_campaign` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/create-openai-ads-campaign.md - `delete_analytics_key_event` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/delete-analytics-key-event.md - `delete_apple_ads_object` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/delete-apple-ads-object.md - `delete_bluesky_post` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/delete-bluesky-post.md - `delete_brand` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/delete-brand.md - `delete_creator` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/delete-creator.md - `delete_dm_automation` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/delete-dm-automation.md - `delete_drive_file` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/delete-drive-file.md - `delete_google_ads_object` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/delete-google-ads-object.md - `delete_google_business_post` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/delete-google-business-post.md - `delete_instagram_dm_automation` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/delete-instagram-dm-automation.md - `delete_linkedin_ads_object` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/delete-linkedin-ads-object.md - `delete_linkedin_comment` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/delete-linkedin-comment.md - `delete_linkedin_lead_subscription` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/delete-linkedin-lead-subscription.md - `delete_merchant_data_source` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/delete-merchant-data-source.md - `delete_merchant_product` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/delete-merchant-product.md - `delete_messenger_marketing_campaign` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/delete-messenger-marketing-campaign.md - `delete_meta_audience` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/delete-meta-audience.md - `delete_meta_catalog` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/delete-meta-catalog.md - `delete_meta_object` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/delete-meta-object.md - `delete_microsoft_ads_object` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/delete-microsoft-ads-object.md - `delete_microsoft_merchant_product` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso/delete-microsoft-merchant-product.md - …and 865 more: https://policylayer.com/tools/hermoso.md ## For agents This record is a snapshot. Live verdicts and the full registry: - Check every server in your MCP config at once: `npx -y policylayer stack` - Vet a server before you add it: install the mcp-precheck skill — `npx skills add https://policylayer.com` (skill text: https://policylayer.com/skill.md) - Query the registry over MCP: endpoint `https://api.policylayer.com/mcp` — tools `check_mcp_server`, `check_mcp_stack`, `check_tool`, `search_registry`, `get_change_events` --- Source: the PolicyLayer MCP registry — one continuously verified record per MCP server. Full record: https://policylayer.com/registry?q=hermoso · API: https://policylayer.com/registry/api · Policy library: https://policylayer.com/policies/hermoso