List all ad creatives in an ad account. Use this to see existing creatives, their formats, and content before creating new ones or reusing existing creatives.
AI agents call list_creatives to retrieve information from Meta Marketing API MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a query operation to retrieve and display advertising creative assets. It has no capability to modify, delete, or execute actions on the data - only to view/list existing creatives. This is a standard read operation with minimal risk; the worst-case scenario is exposure of creative content metadata, which is typical for informational queries in advertising platforms.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'List all ad creatives in an ad account' and 'to see existing creatives, their formats, and content' - purely retrieves data without modification or side effects.
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List all ad creatives in an ad account. Use this to see existing creatives, their formats, and content before creating new ones or reusing existing creatives. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Meta Marketing API MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Meta Marketing API MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_creatives: 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 Meta Marketing API MCP Server. Nothing to install.
list_creatives 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 list_creatives 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 list_creatives. 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.
list_creatives is provided by the Meta Marketing API MCP Server MCP server (pythonando/meta-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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