How to connect Google Ads to Claude Cowork

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Google Ads account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to create a new customer list for holiday campaigns, get campaign details by campaign ID, list all current customer lists in your account, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

Connecting Google Ads to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like Google Ads through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

The Google Ads MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Google Ads account. It provides structured and secure access to your advertising data, so your agent can perform actions like creating customer lists, retrieving campaign details, and managing audience segments on your behalf.

• Automated customer list creation: Instantly have your agent create new customer lists for targeted marketing campaigns, streamlining your segmentation workflows.
• Campaign insights by ID or name: Let your agent fetch detailed information for any ad campaign using its ID or name, making reporting and optimization a breeze.
• Customer list management: Ask your agent to retrieve and review all your existing customer lists, so you always know who you're targeting.
• Add or remove contacts from lists: Seamlessly update audience membership by having your agent add or remove contacts from specified customer lists for more dynamic targeting.