High-level Meta ad account overview: total spend, impressions, clicks, CTR, CPM, CPC, configurable trend, and account info. Supports custom date ranges, filtering, and attribution-window overrides.
AI agents call meta.account.overview to retrieve information from Ads without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool fetches high-level analytics and account information from Meta Ads. It reads spend, impressions, clicks, and other performance metrics. There are no side effects, mutations, or destructive operations indicated. The description mentions 'configurable trend' and 'filtering' which are query parameters, not writes.
From the tool's definition 'overview', 'total spend, impressions, clicks, CTR, CPM, CPC', 'configurable trend', 'account info' — purely retrieves and aggregates metrics
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High-level Meta ad account overview: total spend, impressions, clicks, CTR, CPM, CPC, configurable trend, and account info. Supports custom date ranges, filtering, and attribution-window overrides. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Ads MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Ads MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for meta.account.overview: 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 Ads. Nothing to install.
meta.account.overview 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 meta.account.overview 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 meta.account.overview. 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.
meta.account.overview is provided by the Ads MCP server (manlikemuneeb/ads-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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