Cost vs budget per campaign for the specified period with utilization percentage. Flags over- and under-pacing campaigns. Default last 28 days.
AI agents call gads_budget_pacing to retrieve information from Google Ads without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries budget performance data and flags pacing status—a read-only analytics function with no side effects. While Google Ads access carries some risk (visibility into campaign spend), the tool itself only retrieves and reports metrics without changing budgets, pausing campaigns, or executing commands. Severity is low because misuse exposes business intelligence rather than enabling destructive actions.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves 'Cost vs budget per campaign' and 'utilization percentage' metrics. No modification, deletion, or execution of external operations; purely observational analytics.
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Cost vs budget per campaign for the specified period with utilization percentage. Flags over- and under-pacing campaigns. Default last 28 days. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Google Ads MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Google Ads MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for gads_budget_pacing: 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 Google Ads. Nothing to install.
gads_budget_pacing 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 gads_budget_pacing 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 gads_budget_pacing. 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.
gads_budget_pacing is provided by the Google Ads MCP server (zleventer/google-ads-mcp-npm). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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