GET /ad_account/insights — account-scoped reporting rows.
AI agents call get_ad_account_insights to retrieve information from OpenAI Ads MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This is a read-only operation that retrieves insights/analytics data. The HTTP method is GET, and the description explicitly describes it as returning 'reporting rows', which are data queries with no side effects. While the data retrieved may be commercially sensitive, the tool itself performs no write, execute, destructive, or financial operations.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_ad_account_insights' and description 'GET /ad_account/insights — account-scoped reporting rows' indicate a retrieval operation that queries and returns reporting data without modifying state.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
GET /ad_account/insights — account-scoped reporting rows. It is categorised as a Read tool in the OpenAI Ads MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the OpenAI Ads MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_ad_account_insights: 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 OpenAI Ads MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_ad_account_insights 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 get_ad_account_insights 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 get_ad_account_insights. 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.
get_ad_account_insights is provided by the OpenAI Ads MCP Server MCP server (roast-labs/openai-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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