How to integrate Metaads MCP with Claude Agent SDK

This guide walks you through connecting Metaads to the Claude Agent SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Metaads agent that can get ad performance insights for last week, create a new campaign for summer sale, pause all ads in underperforming campaigns through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your Claude Agent SDK agent real control over a Metaads account through Composio's Metaads MCP server. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Metaads to the Claude Agent SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Metaads agent that can get ad performance insights for last week, create a new campaign for summer sale, pause all ads in underperforming campaigns through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your Claude Agent SDK agent real control over a Metaads account through Composio's Metaads MCP server.

Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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TL;DR

Here's what you'll learn:
  • Get and set up your Claude/Anthropic and Composio API keys
  • Install the necessary dependencies
  • Initialize Composio and create a Tool Router session for Metaads
  • Configure an AI agent that can use Metaads as a tool
  • Run a live chat session where you can ask the agent to perform Metaads operations

What is Claude Agent SDK?

The Claude Agent SDK is Anthropic's official framework for building AI agents powered by Claude. It provides a streamlined interface for creating agents with MCP tool support and conversation management.

Key features include:

  • Native MCP Support: Built-in support for Model Context Protocol servers
  • Permission Modes: Control tool execution permissions
  • Streaming Responses: Real-time response streaming for interactive applications
  • Context Manager: Clean async context management for sessions

What is the Metaads MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Metaads MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Meta Ads account. It provides structured and secure access to your advertising assets, so your agent can perform actions like creating campaigns, managing ads, analyzing insights, and handling audiences on your behalf.

  • Automated campaign and ad creation: Quickly launch new campaigns, ad sets, and ads—including image, video, carousel, and collection formats—without manual setup.
  • Real-time ad performance insights: Instantly retrieve analytics and detailed insights for any ad account, campaign, ad set, or individual ad to monitor and optimize your strategies.
  • Audience management and targeting: Effortlessly create and update custom audiences, from customer lists to website visitors, so your ads reach the right people.
  • Campaign control and optimization: Pause or delete campaigns and creatives, allowing your agent to manage spend and keep your advertising up to date.
  • Creative asset automation: Generate, fetch, or remove ad creatives on the fly, making it easy to test new visuals or messaging across your campaigns.

What is the Composio tool router, and how does it fit here?

What is Composio SDK?

Composio's Composio SDK helps agents find the right tools for a task at runtime. You can plug in multiple toolkits (like Gmail, HubSpot, and GitHub), and the agent will identify the relevant app and action to complete multi-step workflows. This can reduce token usage and improve the reliability of tool calls. Read more here: Getting started with Composio SDK

The tool router generates a secure MCP URL that your agents can access to perform actions.

How the Composio SDK works

The Composio SDK follows a three-phase workflow:

  1. Discovery: Searches for tools matching your task and returns relevant toolkits with their details.
  2. Authentication: Checks for active connections. If missing, creates an auth config and returns a connection URL via Auth Link.
  3. Execution: Executes the action using the authenticated connection.

Step-by-step Guide

Step by step09 STEPS
1

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:
  • Composio API Key and Claude/Anthropic API Key
  • Primary know-how of Claude Agents SDK
  • A Metaads account
  • Some knowledge of Python
2

Getting API Keys for Claude/Anthropic and Composio

Claude/Anthropic API Key
  • Go to the Anthropic Console and create an API key. You'll need credits to use the models.
  • Keep the API key safe.
Composio API Key
  • Log in to the Composio dashboard.
  • Navigate to your API settings and generate a new API key.
  • Store this key securely as you'll need it for authentication.
3

Install dependencies

npm install @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk @composio/core dotenv

Install the Composio SDK and the Claude Agents SDK.

What's happening:

  • @composio/core provides Composio integration for Anthropic
  • @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk is the core agent framework
  • dotenv/config loads environment variables
4

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here
USER_ID=your_user_id_here
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_anthropic_api_key_here

Create a .env file in your project root.

What's happening:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates with Composio
  • USER_ID identifies the user for session management
  • ANTHROPIC_API_KEY authenticates with Anthropic/Claude
5

Import dependencies

import 'dotenv/config';
import readline from 'node:readline';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { query, type Options } from "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk";

dotenv.config();
What's happening:
  • We're importing all necessary libraries including the Claude Agent SDK and Composio
  • The dotenv.config() function loads environment variables from your .env file
  • This setup prepares the foundation for connecting Claude with Metaads functionality
6

Create a Composio instance and Tool Router session

async function chat() {
  const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env;
  if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) {
    throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env');
  }

  const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY });

  // Create Tool Router session for Metaads
  const session = await composio.create(USER_ID, {
    toolkits: ['metaads'],
  });
  const mcpUrl = session?.mcp.url;
What's happening:
  • The function checks for the required COMPOSIO_API_KEY environment variable
  • We're creating a Composio instance using our API key
  • The create method creates a Tool Router session for Metaads
  • The returned url is the MCP server URL that your agent will use
7

Configure Claude Agent with MCP

const options: Options = {
  permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions',
  mcpServers: {
    composio: {
      type: 'http',
      url: mcpUrl,
      headers: { 'x-api-key': COMPOSIO_API_KEY }
    }
  },
  systemPrompt: 'You are a helpful assistant with access to Metaads tools via Composio.',
  maxTurns: 10,
};
What's happening:
  • We're configuring the Claude Agent options with the MCP server URL
  • permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions' allows the agent to execute operations without asking for permission each time
  • The system prompt instructs the agent that it has access to Metaads
  • maxTurns: 10 limits the conversation length to prevent excessive API usage
8

Create client and start chat loop

const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout,
    prompt: 'You: '
  });

  console.log('\nChat started. Type "exit" to quit.\n');

  let isProcessing = false;

  async function ask(prompt: string) {
    isProcessing = true;
    rl.pause();

    process.stdout.write('Claude is thinking...');
    const stream = query({ prompt, options });

    let firstChunk = true;
    for await (const msg of stream) {
      const content = (msg as any).message?.content || (msg as any).content;
      if (Array.isArray(content)) {
        for (const block of content) {
          if (block.type === 'text' && block.text) {
            if (firstChunk) {
              process.stdout.write('\r\x1b[K');
              process.stdout.write('Claude: ');
              firstChunk = false;
            }
            process.stdout.write(block.text);
          }
        }
      }
    }
    process.stdout.write('\n\n');

    isProcessing = false;
    rl.resume();
    rl.prompt();
  }

  rl.on('line', async (line) => {
    if (isProcessing) return;

    const input = line.trim();
    if (input === 'exit') {
      rl.close();
      process.exit(0);
    }
    if (input) await ask(input);
    else rl.prompt();
  });

  await ask('What can you help me with?');
}
What's happening:
  • The readline interface is created to handle user input and output
  • The query function is used to send the user's input to the agent
  • The chat loop continues until the user types 'exit' or 'quit'
9

Run the application

try {
  await chat();
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
  process.exit(1);
}
What's happening:
  • The chat function is the entry point for the application
  • The try-catch block is used to handle any errors that occur

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Metaads and Claude Agent SDK:

import 'dotenv/config';
import readline from 'node:readline';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { query, type Options } from "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk";

async function chat() {
  const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env;
  if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) {
    throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env');
  }

  const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY });
  const session = await composio.create(USER_ID, {
    toolkits: ['metaads']
  });
  const mcp_url = session?.mcp.url;

  const options: Options = {
    permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions',
    mcpServers: {
      composio: {
        type: 'http',
        url: mcp_url,
        headers: { 'x-api-key': COMPOSIO_API_KEY }
      }
    },
    systemPrompt: 'You are a helpful assistant with access to Metaads tools via Composio.',
    maxTurns: 10,
  };

  const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout,
    prompt: 'You: '
  });

  console.log('\nChat started. Type "exit" to quit.\n');

  let isProcessing = false;

  async function ask(prompt: string) {
    isProcessing = true;
    rl.pause();

    process.stdout.write('Claude is thinking...');
    const stream = query({ prompt, options });

    let firstChunk = true;
    for await (const msg of stream) {
      const content = (msg as any).message?.content || (msg as any).content;
      if (Array.isArray(content)) {
        for (const block of content) {
          if (block.type === 'text' && block.text) {
            if (firstChunk) {
              process.stdout.write('\r\x1b[K');
              process.stdout.write('Claude: ');
              firstChunk = false;
            }
            process.stdout.write(block.text);
          }
        }
      }
    }
    process.stdout.write('\n\n');

    isProcessing = false;
    rl.resume();
    rl.prompt();
  }

  rl.on('line', async (line) => {
    if (isProcessing) return;

    const input = line.trim();
    if (input === 'exit') {
      rl.close();
      process.exit(0);
    }
    if (input) await ask(input);
    else rl.prompt();
  });

  await ask('What can you help me with?');
}

try {
  await chat();
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
  process.exit(1);
}

Conclusion

You've successfully built a Claude Agent SDK agent that can interact with Metaads through Composio's Tool Router.

Key features:

  • Native MCP support through Claude's agent framework
  • Streaming responses for real-time interaction
  • Permission bypass for smooth automated workflows
You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom business logic, or building a web interface around the agent.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Metaads action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Create Ad

Create a new ad within an ad set using the Meta Marketing API.

Create Ad Creative

Create a new ad creative using the Meta Marketing API.

Create Ad Set

Create a new ad set within a campaign using the Meta Marketing API.

Create Campaign

Create a new advertising campaign using the Meta Marketing API.

Create Custom Audience

Create a new custom audience using the Meta Marketing API.

Delete Campaign

Delete an advertising campaign using the Meta Marketing API.

Get Ad Accounts

Tool to retrieve all ad account IDs accessible to the authenticated user from Meta Ads.

Get Ad Creative

Get Ad Creative

Get Insights

Get insights data for a Meta Ads object (ad account, campaign, ad set, or ad) using the Meta Marketing API.

Get Meta Object

Tool to retrieve data for any Meta Marketing API object by its ID.

Get Page Accounts

Tool to retrieve permanent page access tokens for accounts managed by the user.

Get User

Tool to retrieve information about the authenticated user from Meta (Facebook) Graph API.

List Ad Creatives

Tool to list all ad creatives under an ad account.

List Ad Network Analytics

Tool to retrieve ad network analytics for a Meta Business using the Meta Marketing API.

List Ad Network Analytics Results

Tool to retrieve ad network analytics results for Facebook Audience Network.

List Ads

Tool to list all ads under an ad account using the Meta Marketing API.

List Agencies

Tool to retrieve agencies associated with a Meta Business or Ad Account.

List Assigned Pages

Tool to retrieve Facebook Pages assigned to a business user via Meta Marketing API.

List Assigned Users

Tool to list users assigned to a Facebook Page or Ad Account within a specific business context.

List Business Ad Accounts

Tool to retrieve all ad accounts owned by a specific Business Manager.

List Business Invoices

Tool to retrieve business invoices from Meta Marketing API.

List Client Ad Accounts

Tool to list all client ad accounts accessible to a business from Meta Ads.

List Client Apps

Tool to retrieve client apps associated with a Meta Business using the Marketing API.

List Client Instagram Assets

Tool to retrieve Instagram assets that are shared with a business as a client using the Meta Marketing API.

List Client Offsite Signal Container Business Objects

Tool to retrieve client offsite signal container business objects for a business from Meta Marketing API.

List Client Pages

Tool to retrieve client pages associated with a Meta business.

List Clients

Tool to retrieve client businesses associated with a Meta Business Manager.

List Collaborative Ads Collaboration Requests

Tool to retrieve collaborative ads collaboration requests for a Meta Business using the Marketing API.

List Collaborative Ads Suggested Partners

Tool to retrieve collaborative ads suggested partners for a business from Meta Marketing API.

List Initiated Audience Sharing Requests

Tool to retrieve initiated audience sharing requests for a business using the Meta Marketing API.

List Managed Partner Ads Funding Source Details

Tool to retrieve managed partner ads funding source details for a Meta Business.

List Owned Apps

Tool to retrieve apps owned by a business from Meta Marketing API.

List Owned Businesses

Tool to retrieve businesses owned by a parent Business Manager from Meta Marketing API.

List Owned Instagram Assets

Tool to list Instagram accounts/assets owned by a Meta Business.

List Owned Offsite Signal Container Business Objects

Tool to retrieve owned offsite signal container business objects for a business from Meta Marketing API.

List Owned Pages

Tool to retrieve Pages owned by a Business Manager from Meta Marketing API.

List Pending Client Ad Accounts

Tool to retrieve pending client ad account access requests for a Business Manager from Meta Ads.

List Pending Client Apps

Tool to retrieve pending client apps for a Meta Business.

List Pending Client Pages

Tool to retrieve pending client pages for a Business Manager using the Meta Marketing API.

List Pending Shared Offsite Signal Container Business Objects

Tool to retrieve pending shared offsite signal container business objects from Meta Marketing API.

List Pending Owned Ad Accounts

Tool to retrieve pending owned ad accounts for a Business Manager account from Meta Marketing API.

List Pending Owned Pages

Tool to retrieve Pages with pending ownership status for a Business Manager from Meta Marketing API.

List Pending Users

Tool to retrieve pending users from a Business Manager in Meta Marketing API.

List Received Audience Sharing Requests

Tool to retrieve all received audience sharing requests for a business using the Meta Marketing API.

List System Users

Tool to retrieve system users for a Meta Business Manager account.

List Targeting Search

Tool to search for targeting options in Meta Ads Marketing API.

Read Ad Sets

Retrieve ad sets from a Meta ad account using the Marketing API.

Update Ad Creative

Update Ad Creative

Update Campaign

Update an existing advertising campaign using the Meta Marketing API.

Upload Ad Image

Upload an image for use in Meta ad creatives using the Marketing API.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Metaads MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Metaads tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Metaads and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Claude Agent SDK fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Metaads tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Metaads scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Metaads data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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