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AdCP - Advertising Context Protocol

Open standard for advertising automation across negotiation and serve-time decisioning

AdCP is an open standard that enables AI agents to discover inventory, buy media, build creatives, activate audiences, manage accounts, and activate pre-negotiated packages at serve time across advertising platforms. Planning-time tasks use MCP and A2A transports; serve-time decisions use the Trusted Match HTTP profile where the latency budget is impression-time.

Documentation

docs.adcontextprotocol.org β€” Full protocol specification, integration guides, and task reference.

Protocol layers

AdCP is one protocol spanning two layers:

LayerProtocol surfacesPurpose
Negotiation layerMedia Buy, Creative, Signals, Accounts, Governance, Brand, Sponsored IntelligenceDiscovery, planning, commercial setup, creative preparation, audience activation, governance, and reporting
Decisioning and serving layerTrusted Match Protocol (Context Match, Identity Match)Serve-time…