google_ads_get_bid_recommendations
AI agents call google_ads_get_bid_recommendations to retrieve information from Google Ads MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
The 'get_bid_recommendations' function retrieves bid strategy suggestions from Google Ads, which is a read-only query operation. While the description is empty (lowering confidence slightly), the clear 'get' verb and 'recommendations' noun pattern, combined with context from peer tools that use explicit write verbs ('add_*'), strongly indicates this is a read operation that queries existing data and returns analysis…
From the tool's definition Tool name contains 'get' and 'recommendations', which are read operations that retrieve data without modifying state.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access google_ads_get_bid_recommendations gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Google Ads MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for google_ads_get_bid_recommendations:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"google_ads_get_bid_recommendations": {}
}
}google_ads_get_bid_recommendations is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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google_ads_get_bid_recommendations. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Google Ads MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Google Ads MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for google_ads_get_bid_recommendations: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Google Ads MCP Server. Nothing to install.
google_ads_get_bid_recommendations is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the google_ads_get_bid_recommendations rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for google_ads_get_bid_recommendations. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
google_ads_get_bid_recommendations is provided by the Google Ads MCP Server MCP server (johnoconnor0/google-ads-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Google Ads MCP Server, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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