---
title: "Call connections.start_ad_account_setup"
method: POST
path: "/api/v1/tools/connections.start_ad_account_setup"
tags: ["connections"]
---

# Call connections.start_ad_account_setup

`POST /api/v1/tools/connections.start_ad_account_setup`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://app.goosybear.ai`
- URL: `https://app.goosybear.ai/api/v1/tools/connections.start_ad_account_setup`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Begin or resume the guided setup for connecting a brand's own ad account — 'help me connect our ad account', 'walk me through ad account setup'. Begin or resume the guided setup that gets us access to this brand's own ad account on one platform, and return the next step. Safe to call when setup is already under way — it RESUMES and never resets progress. Nothing is sent to the platform and nothing is spent; this only opens the guided steps the operator then performs in the platform's own tools. Not for marking one step done — that is `connections.complete_ad_account_step`.

Every result names the workspace it ran in. Say which workspace the answer is about. When the account has more than one workspace and none is selected, this tool refuses with `workspace_ambiguous` and lists the choices — offer them, never pick one.

## Headers

- `x-request-id` string

## Request body

- object
  - `platform` 'meta' | 'google' | 'tiktok' | 'linkedin', required: Which advertising platform's ad account to set up on that platform's own account — the customer owns the account and grants us access to it. The allowed values are the enum's; do not offer a platform outside it.
  - `external_account_id` string, nullable: The operator's OWN ad account id, if they already have an account and have told you the id (a Meta act id, a Google 10-digit customer id, a TikTok advertiser id). Omit it when they are making a new account — that is the normal case and the walkthrough collects it later. NEVER pass a password, token or API key here; this field is an account identifier only.
  - `workspace` string: Which workspace to run in — its slug. Omit to use your default. With more than one reachable workspace and no default, the call is refused and the choices are listed.

## Response `200`

The call was admitted and dispatched. `ok` says whether the tool succeeded — a refusal the tool itself produced is still a 200, exactly as it is a successful JSON-RPC result over MCP.

- union
  - object: The tool ran and answered.
    - `ok` true, required
    - `platform` 'meta' | 'google' | 'tiktok' | 'linkedin', required
    - `grant_state` 'not_started' | 'awaiting_customer_creation' | 'awaiting_authorization' | 'awaiting_platform_access' | 'request_issued' | 'awaiting_customer_accept' | 'active' | 'revoked' | 'failed', required
    - `status_sentence` string, nullable, required
    - `external_account_id` string, nullable, required
    - `next_step_key` string, nullable, required
    - `next_step_title` string, nullable, required
    - `steps` object[], required
      - `step_key` string, required
      - `title` string, required
      - `state` 'pending' | 'done' | 'skipped', required
    - `workspace` string, required: The slug of the workspace this call ran in.
    - `working_in` object, required: Which workspace this call ran in, and how that was decided. Present on every workspace-scoped result.
      - `label` string, required: The chip words — e.g. "working in: Acme Main".
      - `note` string, required: Why this workspace — e.g. "your default", "this call only".
      - `workspace` string, required: The resolved workspace's slug.
      - `source` 'call-override' | 'key-pin' | 'stored-default' | 'sole-reachable', required: Which rung of the R7 precedence resolved the workspace.
  - ToolRefusal: A call that was admitted and dispatched, and did not succeed.
    - `ok` false, required
    - `code` string, required: The typed reason — e.g. `workspace_ambiguous`, `invalid_arguments`, or the tool's own failure code.
    - `message` string, required: A sentence a person can act on.
    - `workspaces` string[]: On a workspace refusal: the slugs this key may pass as `workspace`.
    - `issues` object[]: On `invalid_arguments`: which fields failed, and why.
      - `path` string, required
      - `message` string, required
    - `path` string: On an authoring refusal: where in your call's input it points, e.g. `steps.<key>.params.<field>`.
    - `fix` string: On an authoring refusal: the change to your call that would pass.
    - `instruction` string: On an authoring refusal: what to do next with it.

## Other responses

- `400`: The request could not be used: the body is present but not a JSON object (`tenant_api.malformed_body`); it is a top-level array carrying more messages than this endpoint accepts (`tenant_mcp.batch_too_large`); or the `Idempotency-Key` header is malformed (`tenant_api.idempotency_key_invalid`), disagrees with the body's `idempotency_key` (`tenant_api.idempotency_key_conflict`), or was sent to an action that cannot replay a retry (`tenant_api.idempotency_unsupported`). Nothing ran.
- `401`: No bearer credential, or one that did not resolve. Deliberately ONE undifferentiated answer for absent / unknown / revoked / expired, so the endpoint is never an oracle over the key space.
- `403`: The credential is good but the surface is not open to it — the platform or account API switch is off, or the holder lacks the `api.access` capability. The `code` says which.
- `404`: No such tool. The body names no tool and is identical for every unrecognised name.
- `429`: Over this key's per-minute cap. Carries `Retry-After` and `error.retry_after_seconds`.

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