Pause a campaign from an assistant

Free is read only. Write tools are not announced, and calling one is refused before it reaches the platform. The refused call is not counted as a successful write. Upgrade when you want the preview path, not when you want a firehose. That rule is this product's, not Meta official's and not X's.

1 ad account, 1 seat, 200 tool calls per period. Those strings come from the same plan table as pricing, so this paragraph cannot invent a cap. On a paid plan the write tools appear in the list. They still preview first. Free is the wrong plan for a desk that pauses campaigns. There is no hidden confirm on Free.

If an assistant claims it paused a campaign on Free, it is inventing. The gateway never sent that mutate. Check the tool list: google_ads_update_campaign_status will be absent. Calling it anyway is refused. That is true in every MCP client this URL supports.

Meta Ads, Pinterest Ads, Google Ads and TikTok Ads have write tools in the catalogue. Search Console and GA4 are read only. Microsoft Advertising has no tools. There is no X Ads source. Google Ads has 10 writes of 44. Meta has 23 of 57. TikTok has 27 of 58. Pinterest has 5 of 32.

Counts are read from the catalogue on each build so a new write cannot stay unpublished on this page. Official X Ads MCP documents 10 writes and paused creates on X's server; that is their product, not ours. Official Microsoft Advertising MCP was announced read-only at open pilot. Neither is a write path on this URL.

Name the account and the campaign in the ask. Read the preview. Confirm only if both IDs are the ones you meant. The ticked-account allowlist is checked first. An agent cannot tick the account. Free cannot pause. Those three gates are the product, not a prompt template.

Ask: pause campaign 123 on the ticked Google Ads account, preview only. Expect google_ads_update_campaign_status without confirm. Read the returned name and status. Then confirm. For Meta use meta_update_campaign_status, for TikTok tiktok_update_campaign_status, for Pinterest pinterest_update_campaign_status. See the Google Ads source guide for the rest of the write list.

Give confirm to the people who already have Ads Manager access, not to a shared seat that reads Monday numbers. The agency article walks seats. The allowlist article walks ticks. Untick a client when the retainer ends; the next pause is refused.

Do not write from an assistant when you are on Free, when the account is not ticked, when you need X Ads or Microsoft Advertising tools, when you need a GA4 or Search Console mutation, or when you wanted Meta official writes. Those are different servers with different contracts.

• You are on Free. There is no write path.
• The account is not ticked. The allowlist is checked server-side, including run_tool.
• You need X Ads or Microsoft Advertising tools. This gateway does not ship them.
• You need a GA4 or Search Console mutation. Those sources are read only here.
• You wanted Meta official mcp.facebook.com/ads writes. That is Meta's server, not this preview rule.

There is no X Ads. Microsoft Advertising is soon: OAuth exists, tools do not. Do not pause a Microsoft campaign through this gateway. Do not treat our soon badge as their MCP. Pricing is which plan includes the preview path. Official first-party write rules live on their pages, not in this catalogue.