Get full details for a specific ad from Google Ads Transparency Center by URL. Returns creative variations (headlines, descriptions, OCR text), impressions, regional breakdown, and images.
AI agents call google-get-ad to retrieve information from Ad Library MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool only queries and retrieves publicly available ad information from Google's Transparency Center—no side effects, no data creation, modification, or deletion. It is purely informational reconnaissance of competitor advertising data. The blast radius of misuse is minimal (information disclosure of already-public ad metadata).
From the tool's definition Tool 'retrieves' full details for a specific ad by URL from Google Ads Transparency Center. Returns creative variations, impressions, regional breakdown, and images. Verbs like 'Get' and 'Returns' indicate data retrieval with no modification or deletion.
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Get full details for a specific ad from Google Ads Transparency Center by URL. Returns creative variations (headlines, descriptions, OCR text), impressions, regional breakdown, and images. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Ad Library MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Ad Library MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for google-get-ad: 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 Ad Library MCP. Nothing to install.
google-get-ad 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-get-ad 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-get-ad. 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-get-ad is provided by the Ad Library MCP server (thedavidquan01/ad-library-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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