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How to let an AI assistant change a live ad account safely

What the gateway will and will not do to a live account, and how the preview and confirm cycle works.

For you

What the answer looks like, and what to type to get it.

The way this normally goesLink to this section

  • Give someone the account password and hope.
  • Or do everything yourself, and be the bottleneck.

The way it goes with an assistantLink to this section

  • Give the assistant an account it may reach, on a plan that allows writes.
  • Every change previews first and applies nothing.
  • You read the preview and confirm.
  • Creation is always paused, and deletion does not exist.

Prompts to start fromLink to this section

Trying it without riskLink to this section

text
Pause campaign X, but show me the preview first.
What exactly would change if I cut this budget to 40 EUR?
Create a paused campaign for the autumn range, and tell me what you set.

Tools this usesLink to this section

ToolWhy
describe_toolRead the schema before composing a write. Every write carries a confirm parameter.
google_ads_update_campaign_statusCalled without confirm, it returns the change it would make.
run_toolReaches a write that was not announced. It runs the same plan check and account allowlist, so it is not a way around anything.

What it will not doLink to this section

  • A created campaign is always PAUSED. There is no parameter to create it active.
  • Deleting, duplicating, retargeting and editing creative are not exposed at all.
  • An amount above one million units of currency is refused rather than sent, because that is what a double conversion looks like.
  • A refused call does not consume quota.

For your agent

The tool sequence, the parameters that matter, and what will be refused.

Both readings as Markdown: /guides/safe-writes.md

This job reads several sources, across 3 tool calls. It changes the account, so it needs a plan with writes and an explicit confirm on each change.

SequenceLink to this section

StepToolPurpose
1describe_toolRead the schema before composing a write. Every write carries a confirm parameter.
2google_ads_update_campaign_statusCalled without confirm, it returns the change it would make.
3run_toolReaches a write that was not announced. It runs the same plan check and account allowlist, so it is not a way around anything.

Constraints that will refuse youLink to this section

  • Only the ad accounts the account owner ticked are reachable. Call list_accounts first rather than guessing an identifier.
  • A created campaign is always PAUSED. There is no parameter to create it active.
  • Deleting, duplicating, retargeting and editing creative are not exposed at all.
  • An amount above one million units of currency is refused rather than sent, because that is what a double conversion looks like.
  • A refused call does not consume quota.

What the person is likely to askLink to this section

text
Pause campaign X, but show me the preview first.
What exactly would change if I cut this budget to 40 EUR?
Create a paused campaign for the autumn range, and tell me what you set.