Pause a campaign from an assistant

Free is read only. Write tools are not announced, and calling one is refused before it reaches the platform. The refused call is not counted as a successful write. Upgrade when you want the preview path, not when you want a firehose. That rule is this product's, not Meta official's and not X's.

Alerts not included, 1 ad account, 1 user. Those strings come from the same plan table as pricing, so this paragraph cannot invent a cap. On a paid plan the write tools appear in the list. They still preview first. Free is the wrong plan for a desk that pauses campaigns. There is no hidden confirm on Free.

If an assistant claims it paused a campaign on Free, it is inventing. The gateway never sent that mutate. Check the tool list: google_ads_update_campaign_status will be absent. Calling it anyway is refused. That is true in every MCP client this URL supports.

Meta Ads, Pinterest Ads, Google Ads, TikTok Ads and X Ads have write tools in the catalogue. Search Console and GA4 are read only. Microsoft Advertising is available. X Ads is available with selected-account reporting, campaign changes, image/video uploads, website cards, carousels and conversion events, with confirmation before writes. Google Ads has 10 writes of 45. Meta has 23 of 59. TikTok has 29 of 64. Pinterest has 27 of 56.

Counts are read from the catalogue on each build so a new write cannot stay unpublished on this page. The X Ads connector uses a reviewed subset of X’s official MCP with gateway confirmation and selected-account access. The native server’s full inventory is separate from our published catalogue.

X Ads exposes 44 tools, including 19 writes. Upload PNG, JPEG, GIF or MP4 files up to 4 MB, register media in the library, create website cards or carousels, then compose and attach promoted-only posts. Campaign and group creation stays paused. Budget, schedule, targeting and conversion-event edits use the same preview/confirmation workflow. Reconnect older X connections for media.write. Follow the X Ads media workflow.

Name the account and the campaign in the ask. Read the preview. Confirm only if both IDs are the ones you meant. The ticked-account allowlist is checked first. An agent cannot tick the account. Free cannot pause. Those three gates are the product, not a prompt template.

Ask: pause campaign 123 on the ticked Google Ads account, preview only. Expect google_ads_update_campaign_status without confirm. Read the returned name and status. Then confirm. For Meta use meta_update_campaign_status, for TikTok tiktok_update_campaign_status, for Pinterest pinterest_update_campaign_status. See the Google Ads source guide for the rest of the write list.

Give confirm to the people who already have Ads Manager access, not to a shared seat that reads Monday numbers. The enterprise article walks seats. The allowlist article walks ticks. Untick a client when the retainer ends; the next pause is refused.

Do not write from an assistant when you are on Free, when the account is not ticked, when you need a GA4 or Search Console mutation, or when you wanted Meta official writes. Those are different servers with different contracts.

• You are on Free. There is no write path.
• The account is not ticked. The allowlist is checked server-side, including run_tool.
• You require an operation outside a connector’s reviewed catalogue. Check its current scope before choosing it.
• You need a GA4 or Search Console mutation. Those sources are read only here.
• You wanted Meta official mcp.facebook.com/ads writes. That is Meta's server, not this preview rule.

X Ads is available with selected-account reporting, campaign changes, image/video uploads, website cards, carousels and conversion events, with confirmation before writes. Microsoft Advertising is available. Do not pause a Microsoft campaign through this gateway. Do not treat our access-pending badge as their MCP. Pricing is which plan includes the preview path. Official first-party write rules live on their pages, not in this catalogue.