List campaigns in the account with name, status, channel type, bidding strategy, and date range. Filter by status (default ENABLED).
AI agents call gads_list_campaigns 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 and retrieves campaign information from the Google Ads account with no side effects. It is a read-only operation that returns structured data about existing campaigns. The filtering capability does not change the nature of the operation—it merely constrains the results returned. No data is created, modified, deleted, or executed.
From the tool's definition 'List campaigns' with filtering by status—retrieves campaign metadata (name, status, channel type, bidding strategy, date range) without modifying or deleting data.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List campaigns in the account with name, status, channel type, bidding strategy, and date range. Filter by status (default ENABLED). 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_list_campaigns: 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_list_campaigns 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_list_campaigns 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_list_campaigns. 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_list_campaigns 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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