Bring Retargeting
to Windsurf
Learn how to connect AdRoll to Windsurf 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 Windsurf?
Windsurf's Cascade agent chains multiple AdRoll tool calls autonomously. query data, analyze results, and generate code in a single agentic session. Paste Vinkius Edge URL, reload, and all 7 tools are immediately available. Real-time tool feedback appears inline, so you see API responses directly in your editor.
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Windsurf's Cascade agent autonomously chains multiple tool calls in sequence, solving complex multi-step tasks without manual intervention
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Purpose-built for agentic workflows. Cascade understands context across your entire codebase and integrates MCP tools natively
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JSON-based configuration means zero code changes: paste a URL, reload, and all 7 tools are immediately available
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Real-time tool feedback is displayed inline, so you see API responses directly in your editor without switching contexts
AdRoll in Windsurf
AdRoll and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect AdRoll to Windsurf 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 Windsurf
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 Windsurf 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 Windsurf
Every tool call from Windsurf 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 Windsurf discover MCP tools?
Windsurf reads the mcp_config.json file on startup and connects to each configured server via Streamable HTTP. Tools are listed in the MCP panel and available to Cascade automatically.
Can Cascade chain multiple MCP tool calls?
Yes. Cascade is an agentic system. it can plan and execute multi-step workflows, calling several tools in sequence to accomplish complex tasks without manual prompting between steps.
Does Windsurf support multiple MCP servers?
Yes. Add as many servers as needed in mcp_config.json. Each server's tools appear in the MCP panel and Cascade can use tools from different servers in a single flow.
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