Bring Retargeting
to Claude Desktop
Learn how to connect AdRoll to Claude Desktop and start using 7 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the AdRoll MCP Server?
Connect your AdRoll account to any AI agent and take full control of your digital advertising operations and retargeting workflows through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Campaign Orchestration — List and manage all your advertising campaigns programmatically, retrieving detailed budget settings and high-fidelity operational status in real-time
- Ad Group & Creative Intelligence — Access your complete directory of ad groups and creative assets to coordinate your visual marketing strategy across multiple channels
- Performance Reporting — Programmatically retrieve real-time metrics including clicks, impressions, and high-fidelity spend data to optimize your ROI directly through your agent
- Audience Segmentation — Access and manage your retargeting segments to ensure perfectly coordinated audience targeting and high-fidelity personalized experiences
- Infrastructure Monitoring — Access advertisable profile metadata and verify account-level settings directly through your agent for instant operational reporting
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Retrieve your API Key or Personal Access Token from the AdRoll Developer Portal
3. Start managing your advertising performance from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client
No more manual toggling between complex ad tables or missing spend spikes. Your AI acts as your dedicated ad operations coordinator and performance analyst.
Who is this for?
- Marketing Managers — instantly retrieve campaign performance recaps and monitor spend using natural language commands
- Growth Advertisers — orchestrate audience segments and verify creative status without leaving your creative workspace
- Media Buyers — automate the retrieval of structured advertising metrics for internal reporting through simple AI queries
Built-in capabilities (7)
Get campaign details
Pass report criteria as a JSON string. Get performance report
List ad groups for a campaign
List all ads for an advertisable
List all advertisable profiles
List campaigns for an advertisable
List audience segments
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect AdRoll to your AI workflow. Add Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 7 tools in the chat interface. ask a question, Claude calls the right tool, and you see the answer. Zero code, zero context switching.
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Claude Desktop is the reference MCP client. it was designed alongside the protocol itself, ensuring the most complete and stable MCP implementation available
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Zero-code configuration: add a server URL to a JSON file and Claude instantly discovers and exposes all available tools in the chat interface
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Claude's extended thinking capability lets it reason through multi-step tool usage, chaining multiple API calls to answer complex questions
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Enterprise-grade security with local config storage. your tokens never leave your machine, and connections go directly to Vinkius Edge network
AdRoll in Claude Desktop
AdRoll and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect AdRoll to Claude Desktop through Vinkius don't need to source, host, or maintain individual MCP servers. Every tool call runs inside a hardened runtime with credential isolation, DLP, and a signed audit chain.
Raw MCP | Vinkius | |
|---|---|---|
| Server catalog | Find and host yourself | 3,400+ managed |
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted | Sandboxed V8 isolates |
| Credential handling | Plaintext in config | Vault + runtime injection |
| Data loss prevention | None | Configurable DLP policies |
| Kill switch | None | Global instant shutdown |
| Financial circuit breakers | None | Per-server limits + alerts |
| Audit trail | None | Ed25519 signed logs |
| SIEM log streaming | None | Splunk, Datadog, Webhook |
| Honeytokens | None | Canary alerts on leak |
| Custom domains | Not applicable | DNS challenge verified |
| GDPR compliance | Manual effort | Automated purge + export |
Why teams choose Vinkius for AdRoll in Claude Desktop
The AdRoll MCP Server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS — a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts. All 7 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in Claude Desktop only access the data you authorize, with DLP that blocks sensitive information from ever reaching the model, kill switch for instant shutdown, and up to 60% token savings. Enterprise-grade infrastructure, zero maintenance.
* Every MCP server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS - a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts optimized for native MCP execution. See our infrastructure
How Vinkius secures
AdRoll for Claude Desktop
Every tool call from Claude Desktop to the AdRoll MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
How do I find my AdRoll API credentials?
Log in to the AdRoll Developer Portal, navigate to your dashboard, and generate a Personal Access Token or register an app to obtain your API Key.
Can I retrieve spend metrics via AI?
Yes! The get_report tool allows your agent to retrieve high-fidelity spend and performance data by providing a JSON criteria object.
How do I check my advertisable profiles?
Use the list_advertisables tool to retrieve your complete directory of websites and brands managed within your AdRoll account programmatically.
How does Claude Desktop discover MCP tools?
When Claude Desktop starts, it reads the claude_desktop_config.json file and connects to each configured MCP server. It calls the tools/list endpoint to fetch the schema for every available tool, then surfaces them as clickable options in the chat interface via the 🔌 icon.
What happens if the MCP server is temporarily unavailable?
Claude Desktop handles disconnections gracefully. if the server is unreachable at startup, the tools simply won't appear. Once the server becomes available again, restarting Claude Desktop will re-establish the connection. There is no timeout penalty or error loop.
Can I connect multiple MCP servers simultaneously?
Yes. You can add as many servers as you need in the mcpServers section of the config file. Each server appears as a separate tool provider, and Claude can use tools from multiple servers in a single conversation turn.
Is there a limit on the number of tools per server?
Claude Desktop can handle hundreds of tools per server. However, for optimal LLM performance, Vinkius servers are designed to expose focused, well-documented tool sets rather than overwhelming the model with too many options.
Does Claude Desktop support Streamable HTTP transport?
Yes. Claude Desktop supports both SSE (Server-Sent Events) and the newer Streamable HTTP transport that Vinkius uses. Simply provide the server URL. Claude auto-negotiates the transport protocol.
Server not appearing after restart
Ensure the JSON is valid (no trailing commas). Check the file path: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\\Claude\\ (Windows).
Authentication error
Verify your Vinkius token is correct. Go to cloud.vinkius.com to regenerate it if needed.
Tools not showing in chat
Click the 🔌 icon at the bottom of the chat input. If it shows 0 tools, the server may still be connecting. wait a few seconds.