Setup steps checked Nov 2026.

Your ad accounts, inside Claude

What you'll have at the end: Claude on the web, desktop or phone answering from your Google Ads, Meta ads, TikTok ads, Reddit ads and X ads, and drafting the changes you allow.

Before you start

• A Claude account. (checked Nov 2026)
• An OpenAdManager account, or create one during step 6.
• On Claude Team or Enterprise, an Owner adds the connector first (see below).

Install

1. Open Customize → Connectors, click + Add, then Add custom connector. Open it directly.
2. Name it OpenAdManager and paste the URL: [Copy] https://mcp.openadmanager.com/mcp. Click Continue.
3. Claude shows the sign-in it found for OpenAdManager. Click Continue.
4. Choose these settings:
   • Authentication: Sign in now.
   • OAuth client: Use Claude's published identity (Recommended).
   • Request headers: leave empty.
5. Click Add.
6. A window opens. Sign in to OpenAdManager (Google, Facebook or email) and click Allow. Choose the workspace and the ad accounts Claude may use.
7. Back in OpenAdManager, Add to your AI turns green: ✓ Connected from Claude.
8. So Claude does not ask before every change, open Customize → Connectors → OpenAdManager and set both tool groups to Always allow. Your AI permissions in OpenAdManager still decide what can change.

To change a setting later, remove the connector and add it again. Claude doesn't edit connectors in place.

Manual

Check it worked

Start a new chat and ask:

Use OpenAdManager: which of my campaigns spent the most in the last 7 days, and what did each bring in?

Try this prompt in Claude

Then: "Find ads with spend but no conversions this month." · "Suggest one budget change and explain why. Don't make it yet."

Using it day to day

• Pick the tools per chat. In the chat's tools menu you can switch OpenAdManager on or off.
• Changes follow your switches. If Claude tries something that is turned off, it tells you which switch and shows a link. Turn it on in AI permissions, then ask again.
• Skills. Claude can load OpenAdManager's playbooks (audit, launch, optimize, report, creative) on its own through the server. The optional Claude plugin adds them as named skills.
• Phone. Add the connector on the web or desktop first; it then works in the Claude mobile app.
• Claude Code. A connector added on claude.ai also shows up in Claude Code. Don't add it there a second time.

Claude Team or Enterprise

1. An Owner opens Organization settings → Connectors → Add → Custom → Web and adds https://mcp.openadmanager.com/mcp once.
2. Each member clicks Connect and signs in with their own OpenAdManager account.
3. Each person sees only the ad accounts their OpenAdManager role allows.

Remove it

• In Claude: Customize → Connectors → OpenAdManager → Remove. Claude forgets its sign-in.
• In OpenAdManager: Connections → Claude → Revoke. The next call from Claude fails at once. Do this too if you lost the device.

If something goes wrong

• I don't see "Add custom connector". On Team or Enterprise, your Owner controls connectors. Ask them to add it (above).
• I already have one custom connector on Claude Free. Claude's Free plan allows one. Remove the other one or use a paid Claude plan.
• "Needs authentication" / "Connect" shows again. Open Connectors → OpenAdManager → Connect. This happens after you revoke access or haven't used it for a long time.
• Claude doesn't use OpenAdManager. Turn it on in the chat's tools menu, or start with "Use OpenAdManager:".
• It shows the wrong ad account. OpenAdManager → Connections → Claude → Accounts: pick which accounts Claude may use.
• "Limit reached." You used this month's MCP requests. The reply says the reset date and the next plan; upgrade from Billing.
• "Not done. ... is turned off in AI permissions." That is your switches working. Open the link in the message and turn it on if you want it.
• A tool is gone after a plan change. Your plan no longer includes it. Start a new chat so Claude reloads the tool list.

Using Claude in the terminal? → Claude Code setup

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