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Microsoft Advertising MCP Server is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. 105 installs a week from npm. Last commit 18 Sep 2026.

Microsoft Ads management — CRUD, Google Ads import, ad extensions, and async reports

Installs per day peak 133 · avg 35 · +33% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 51 days of history · worst day 0%
51 days agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 91 checks
Tools
hidden behind auth
0 ms
Response time
average over 24h
105
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

What the code does

We read the source, 18 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Evidence

Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.

const METADATA_BASE = "http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1";

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We found things in this code

Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch Microsoft Advertising MCP Server and you get told the day something new turns up.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add msads-mcp --transport http https://{host}/msads-mcp/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "msads-mcp": {
      "url": "https://{host}/msads-mcp/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.msads-mcp]
url = "https://{host}/msads-mcp/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "msads-mcp": {
      "url": "https://{host}/msads-mcp/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "msads-mcp": {
      "url": "https://{host}/msads-mcp/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://{host}/msads-mcp/mcp streamable-http answering 0 ms 3 min ago

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Microsoft Advertising MCP Server — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Is Microsoft Advertising MCP Server working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 91 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 0 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Microsoft Advertising MCP Server as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect Microsoft Advertising MCP Server?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Microsoft Advertising MCP Server need an API key?
No. Microsoft Advertising MCP Server completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How many people use Microsoft Advertising MCP Server?
The npm package @cesteral/msads-mcp was installed 105 times in the last week. Week over week that is +33%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Microsoft Advertising MCP Server open source?
Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in TypeScript, 7 stars on GitHub and 8 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.