Google Ads MCP Server (bjorndavidhansen/google-ads-mcp-server) is an MCP server listed on the M8ven Trust Index. It scores 64 out of 100, grade C. It declares 69 tools. No publisher has claimed this listing.

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Google Ads MCP Server

Item: Google Ads MCP Server
Rating: 64
Author: M8ven

Enables Claude Desktop to access and manage Google Ads data, including campaigns, ad groups, keywords, budgets, and visualizations, through natural language interactions.

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The grade above is for the source repository. Registries can serve a different version, so we mark the ones we were not able to read.

// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

🔐

You'll be asked for 4 credentials: POSTGRES_PASSWORD, GOOGLE_ADS_DEVELOPER_TOKEN, GOOGLE_ADS_CLIENT_SECRET, GOOGLE_ADS_REFRESH_TOKEN

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// environment variables

To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.

configAPP_ENVSet to dev, test, or prod to specify the environment

configLOG_LEVEL

configUSE_CACHE

configCACHE_TTL

configDB_TYPE

configDB_PATH

configPOSTGRES_HOST

configPOSTGRES_PORT

configPOSTGRES_DATABASE

configPOSTGRES_USER

🔐 secretPOSTGRES_PASSWORD

configPOSTGRES_SSL_MODE

configAPI_HOST

configAPI_PORT

configGOOGLE_ADS_CONFIG_PATH

configGOOGLE_ADS_LOGIN_CUSTOMER_ID

configGOOGLE_ADS_CLIENT_CUSTOMER_ID

configAPP_VERSION

configDB_AUTO_CLEAN_INTERVAL

configPOSTGRES_POOL_MIN_SIZE

configPOSTGRES_POOL_MAX_SIZE

🔐 secretGOOGLE_ADS_DEVELOPER_TOKEN

configGOOGLE_ADS_CLIENT_ID

🔐 secretGOOGLE_ADS_CLIENT_SECRET

🔐 secretGOOGLE_ADS_REFRESH_TOKEN

configCACHE_ENABLED

configENABLE_OTEL

configOTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT

configENABLE_METRICS

configENABLE_ACCOUNT_HIERARCHY

configENABLE_DETAILED_REPORTING

configENABLE_CLAUDE_ARTIFACTS

Deployment configuration, supplied by whoever hosts the server. Users are not asked for these.

deployPORT

// quality suggestions

Tool annotations

No tools have read-only/destructive annotations

Add readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations to every tool so hosts can warn users before invoking.

All four hints declared on every tool

69/69 tools missing one or more hints — get_ad_groups (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); get_ad_groups_json (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); get_ad_group_performance (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +66 more. OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.

For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.

Tool inputs are validated

64/69 tool handlers declare input schemas (93%)

Declare an inputSchema with zod/joi/yup on every tool definition.

License file

No license file

Add a LICENSE file (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.).

Tests exist

No test files found

Add tests that exercise each declared tool.

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