Quickstart.

Step 01 · ~30 seconds

Get your API key

1. 01 Log in to your AdTAO account.
2. 02 Go to Settings → Security & Privacy → API Access.
3. 03 Click Create Key. Copy it — it looks like adtao_… and you'll only see it once.

Keep it secret. Treat it like a password.

Free users: creating a key needs a paid plan. Free users can still use AdTAO read-only via Claude Desktop sign-in — see access for what each plan's level includes.

Step 02 · ~2 minutes

Connect your host

Pick your host. The endpoint is always https://mcp.adtao.io/mcp.

claude mcp add --transport http adtao https://mcp.adtao.io/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "adtao": {
      "transport": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.adtao.io/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "adtao": {
      "url": "https://mcp.adtao.io/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Replace YOUR_API_KEY with the key from step 1. Never commit the real key to source control.

Step 03 · ~10 seconds

Verify it's connected

Ask your agent:

"List my accessible Google Ads accounts."

If you see your accounts, you're connected. If you see an auth error, re-check the Authorization header.

Step 04 · ~1 minute

Get the skills package

The skills package is a small set of ready-made playbooks that teach your agent the best way to use AdTAO — weekly reporting, health scans, budget checks, and safe bulk approvals.

"Run my weekly portfolio report."

and the agent will follow the weekly-portfolio-report skill end to end.

Skills ship incrementally — more are added with each release. See changelog.

Step 05 · now you're flying

Try a real workflow

Once the package is loaded, good first prompts:

• → "Give me the read on all my accounts this week."
• → "Scan account X for problems and show me the dollar impact."
• → "Which of my accounts are overspending right now?"
• → "Show me what's pending approval, and let's go through it."