How to Connect Google Ads to Claude Duet

Duet is Anthropic's proactive agent. Their launch post describes it working in the background on its own cloud computer, sending a short brief each morning, checking your connected apps every few hours, and messaging you when something needs a decision. You talk to it by text or voice, in one thread, and it hands back finished work: docs, sheets, decks.

• Plans: Claude Pro and Max, at no extra cost during the preview. Team and Enterprise aren't included yet.
• Where: the US, by waitlist, with invites in waves.
• Apps: iPhone and Android, plus claude.ai on a computer.
• Model: Claude Opus 5.5. You don't pick a model; Duet decides how much effort a job needs.

It shares your Claude plan's usage limits, background checks included. If you're outside the US, everything in steps 1 to 5 works in a normal Claude chat today, and Duet picks it up when it reaches you.

Steps 1 and 2 happen in AdPlug, steps 3 to 5 in Claude, and step 6 in Duet. It takes about two minutes.

1. 1

   Create your AdPlug account

   Go to adplug.app/signup, sign in with Google or email, and follow the short onboarding. It ends on your AdPlug dashboard.

   

2. 2

   Connect Google Ads to AdPlug

   On the dashboard, click Connect Google Ads (or open the Connections page). AdPlug takes you through Google's own sign-in; use the Google identity that can see the accounts you want Duet to work on.

   

   If you manage clients through a manager account (MCC), connect the manager identity. One connection then covers every account under it.

   

3. 3

   Add AdPlug to Claude

   Open Add custom connector in Claude. Paste the name and the URL below, then click Add.

   Name

   AdPlug - Google Ads

   Copy

   URL

   https://api.adplug.app/mcp/google-ads

   Copy

   

   The link opens the form straight away. You'll find the same form under Customize → Connectors, Add, Add custom connector.

4. 4

   Authorise Claude to use AdPlug

   Click Connect on the new connector. Claude opens AdPlug's sign-in: use the same email as your AdPlug account and click Approve. The connector turns Connected.

   

5. 5

   Test it in a Claude chat

   Start a new Claude chat, check the connector is switched on in the + menu under Connectors, and ask:

   “List my Google Ads accounts.”

   Claude calls the google_ads_list_accounts tool and returns your accounts with their names, currencies, and manager hierarchy. If that works, the connection is good end to end.

   

6. 6

   Ask Duet for a performance snapshot

   Open Duet, in the app on your phone or on claude.ai, and send:

   “Give me a snapshot of my Google Ads over the last 30 days: what's working, where money is wasted, any tracking or disapproval problems, and what to fix first.”

   Duet pulls the numbers through AdPlug and comes back with a snapshot: what's working, what isn't, and what needs you first. Ask your follow-ups in the same thread. That's the quickest way to see how much of the account work it can take off you.

Duet has two ways into a service. For sites without a connector it uses its own cloud browser, which you can't watch or take over. With a connector it gets the platform's API instead: reports come back as data, a change is a named operation with exact values, and you don't have to sign Duet's browser in to your ad account.

Google Ads isn't one of the apps Anthropic names for Duet, and the Google apps it does name (Gmail, Calendar, Drive) don't reach ads. Claude's connector directory has no Google Ads connector from Google itself either (checked 27 October 2026). AdPlug fills that gap with the Google Ads API: reports, search terms, keyword research, and campaign changes you approve first. The Google Ads MCP overview lists everything it can read and change.

The route in this guide has three links: Google Ads connects to AdPlug, AdPlug is added to Claude as a custom connector, and Duet uses the connectors on your Claude account. Anthropic's safety page puts it plainly: the apps you've connected to Claude carry over to Duet, and switching one off in one place switches it off in both.

Duet is built to reach out first, so tell it what belongs in your morning brief:

The latest day's conversions are still coming in, so tell Duet to treat a small dip as lag before it flags one. If the brief comes back without Google Ads while Duet is in preview, ask in the thread instead. Then hand it the job that eats your Monday, the client report. Duet hands back finished work, so it's ready to send.

With the right connector, yes. Here's what keeps your account safe when Duet works through AdPlug.

Duet adds its own guard. Anthropic built it to show you exactly what it's about to do and wait before it sends a message, makes a payment, signs a document or deletes anything; if you can't approve straight away, it finishes the rest and brings the approval back later. For ad changes, give it one rule in the thread:

In Claude's connector settings you can also set the change tools to Needs approval. Creating and editing campaigns needs a paid AdPlug plan, and your Usage and Audit Log shows every call.

Short ones that work as soon as you're connected. Swap in your own account and campaign names, and ask follow-ups in the same thread.

More copy-paste prompts live in the prompt playbooks, and Claude Duet for marketing has the jobs to hand Duet by role, from agencies to CMOs.

Click any item to expand the answer.

The same AdPlug account connects other platforms and assistants.

Email support@adplug.app with setup questions or bug reports. Most replies come back the same business day.