Break down Meta ad performance by placement (Facebook Feed, Instagram Stories, Reels, Audience Network). Supports custom date ranges, time buckets, filtering, attribution-window overrides, and optional device-platform breakdown.
AI agents call meta.insights.placements 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 retrieves and queries ad performance data broken down by placement type. It reads insights/analytics data with no side effects — no creation, modification, deletion, or financial transactions involved.
From the tool's definition Break down Meta ad performance by placement... Supports custom date ranges, time buckets, filtering, attribution-window overrides, and optional device-platform breakdown.
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Break down Meta ad performance by placement (Facebook Feed, Instagram Stories, Reels, Audience Network). Supports custom date ranges, time buckets, filtering, attribution-window overrides, and optional device-platform breakdown. 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.insights.placements: 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.insights.placements 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.insights.placements 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.insights.placements. 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.insights.placements 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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