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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Buyer Workflows

> Use v3 to create buyer objects, request seller proposals, stage media buys, and launch a campaign.

<Note>
  These workflows require an enrolled Buyer account or the integrated
  own-supply sandbox capability on a Media Company. Call `get_status` first.
  An integrated Media Company stays in the same account and never uses
  `switch_account` for campaign work.
</Note>

When you request proposals through Murph, its runtime continues the same request for up to eight dispatches within 30 seconds. It preserves the campaign revision and idempotency key. An unfinished response is provisional, including when no products have arrived; it does not mean there are no matches. If the wait limit is reached or accumulated result pages exceed its response-size limit, Murph retains the request and reports incomplete results. It does not automatically start a replacement round or attach provisional products. Completed results still follow the normal product-selection and attachment checks. Reading full targeting capability pages preserves the original request and any confirmed attachments. If a first request is rejected before execution starts, you can correct it and retry in the same conversation. Errors during an existing execution or with an uncertain outcome keep that execution protected from replacement.

## Buyer workflow at a glance

1. Confirm buyer operator readiness.
2. Create or select an advertiser.
3. Create a campaign with its brief, flight, and budget.
4. Request proposals from ready sellers.
5. Accept a quoted proposal or stage returned products.
6. Inspect the staged media buys and resolve any draft issues.
7. Launch the campaign explicitly.
8. Query bounded campaign delivery.

## 0. Confirm buyer operator readiness

Call `get_status` before creating buying work. When
`operatorIdentity.usableForBuying` is false, new discovery and buying calls are
blocked with `BUYER_SETUP_REQUIRED`. An account administrator must call
`save_buyer_operator` with the buyer's real non-platform domain and choose
whether this account represents the `whole_operator` or a `specific_unit` with
a stable `operatorUnitId`.

```json theme={null}
{
  "operatorDomain": "agency.example",
  "operatorScope": "whole_operator"
}
```

When the domain is usable, `scopeStatus` is `unclassified`, and `locked` is
false, reuse that domain and choose its scope before new AdCP 3.2 provisioning.
Existing buying remains available during that scope migration. If the identity
is locked, follow the support action from `get_status` instead.
Confirming the commercial operator does not add users, change membership, or
change the login organization. See
[Buyer setup and go-live](/v2/buyer/account/setup) for scope selection and
identity-locking rules.

## 1. Create an advertiser

Creating requires `name` and `brand`. `primaryCurrency` defaults to `'USD'`
when omitted; pass any ISO 4217 code to override, or update it later while the
advertiser is unlocked. When `name` or `brand` is missing the tool returns a
neutral `needs_input` result naming the missing fields. A `needs_input` result
is a question, not a failure; nothing is saved until the tool is called again
with the answer.

The currency stays editable until the first campaign or seller binding locks
it. To change it, send `advertiserId` with the new `primaryCurrency` as an
ordinary update; you never need to archive and recreate the advertiser.
`sandbox` is immutable after creation.

```json theme={null}
{
  "name": "Acme Europe",
  "brand": "acme.example",
  "primaryCurrency": "EUR",
  "sandbox": true
}
```

Retain the returned `advertiserId`. To update, send it with only the fields to
change. Do not send `sandbox` on an update.

## 2. Create a campaign

Creation requires `advertiserId`, `name`, `flight`, `budget`, and an
`idempotencyKey`. Write the brief from the buyer's stated goal, audience, and
what is being promoted.

```json theme={null}
{
  "advertiserId": "ADVERTISER_ID",
  "name": "Autumn launch",
  "brief": "Reach sustainability leaders in the Netherlands with Acme's autumn product launch.",
  "flight": {
    "startAt": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
    "endAt": "2026-09-30T23:59:59Z"
  },
  "budget": {
    "total": 50000,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "pacing": "even"
  },
  "idempotencyKey": "acme-autumn-create-v1"
}
```

Creation does not launch. Retain the returned `campaignId` and `revision`.

### Target Nielsen DMA areas

You can target Nielsen Designated Market Areas (DMAs) while saving a campaign
or staging a media buy. On `save_campaign`, use `targeting.geoMetros`. On
`save_media_buy`, use `products[].targetingOverlay.geo_metros` to include DMAs
or `geo_metros_exclude` to exclude them. Each field contains at least one
metro entry, and each entry contains at least one value.

Send a numeric DMA code or a familiar DMA name such as `LA DMA`. The service
resolves accepted names to numeric codes before it saves the campaign or media
buy.

```json theme={null}
{
  "targeting": {
    "geoMetros": [{
      "requirementId": "us-west-dmas",
      "strength": "required",
      "system": "nielsen_dma",
      "include": ["LA DMA"]
    }]
  }
}
```

```json theme={null}
{
  "products": [{
    "productId": "QUALIFIED_PRODUCT_ID",
    "targetingOverlay": {
      "geo_metros": [{ "system": "nielsen_dma", "values": ["LA DMA"] }],
      "geo_metros_exclude": [{ "system": "nielsen_dma", "values": ["501"] }]
    }
  }]
}
```

If a name matches more than one DMA, the save returns a validation error with
the matching candidates. Show those candidates to the buyer and ask them to
choose one. Do not guess which area they mean.

## 3. Request proposals from eligible sellers

`get_status` reports how many destinations are currently ready and includes a
bounded `readyDestinations` sample for explanation. A fresh
`request_proposals` call rechecks the complete marketplace server-side and
contacts every active seller whose buyer-specific readiness has `canBuy: true`.
The caller does not select or cap the seller cohort.

Before a seller-visible brief is recorded or sent, each seller must also pass
the campaign's structured market and channel constraints. Campaign seller IDs
remain planning scope for ordinary marketplace rounds; use `expectedSellerId`
only as the documented authority guard, not as a fan-out selector.

For an active sponsored buyer using a sandbox advertiser, the server instead
confines the cohort to that buyer's sponsoring storefront and applies the
sandbox transaction path. The sponsoring storefront does not need to be open
to the public marketplace for this no-spend workflow.

```json theme={null}
{
  "campaignId": "CAMPAIGN_ID",
  "expectedCampaignRevision": 1,
  "expectedSellerId": "EXPECTED_SELLER_ID",
  "evaluation": {
    "instructions": "Prefer contextual relevance and transparent fixed pricing."
  },
  "idempotencyKey": "acme-autumn-proposals-v1"
}
```

`expectedSellerId` is a Storefront ID, not an internal customer ID. It is an
optional fail-closed precondition for automation that must remain confined to
one seller. A fresh round fails if the buyer's current
server-side authority does not resolve exclusively to that seller. The value
can narrow an already-authorized scope; it cannot authorize a seller or reduce
a normal marketplace buyer's complete eligible cohort. Omit it when broad
marketplace discovery is intentional.

For a fresh round, the call durably schedules complete eligibility enumeration
and returns `running`; the frozen seller count may therefore be zero on the
first response while discovery is pending. Each background seller attempt has a
30-second bound. Retry the exact same idempotency key until the result becomes
`complete`, `partial`, or `failed`. The execution
stores the resolved seller cohort, so retries never silently add, remove, or
duplicate sellers. Each seller may return:

* `quoted` with qualified Proposal IDs;
* `products` with a `productQueryId`; or
* `failed` with a bounded error.

Repeating the same idempotency key returns the same proposal round. Use a new
key only when intentionally asking sellers for a fresh round. Evaluation
instructions are recorded but are not yet applied to ranking; review the
returned results yourself.

Only one proposal-request execution may run for a buyer at a time, across all
campaigns. Poll the active execution to terminal before starting another.

After the execution is terminal, follow every `page.nextCursor`. `perSeller`
contains at most 50 outcomes on the current page, while product-heavy outcomes
may continue for the same seller on the next cursor. Product details are
bounded for transport; `detailsTruncated: true` marks a bounded field projection.
The `productId` remains the selection key. Meanwhile,
`summary.sellersRequested` always counts the full frozen cohort.

## 4. Stage a media buy

### Accept a quoted proposal

```json theme={null}
{
  "fromProposalId": "sfp1:QUALIFIED_PROPOSAL_ID",
  "idempotencyKey": "acme-autumn-accept-proposal-v1"
}
```

The proposal version must still be current and belong to the campaign. The
result is a draft media buy; accepting a proposal does not launch it. The
current schema requires `idempotencyKey` on every call, although proposal
acceptance derives retry safety from the qualified proposal version and does
not consume the supplied key.

### Stage returned products

For a seller that returned products without a Proposal, preserve every returned
identity field and use that seller's `productQueryId` as the idempotency key:

```json theme={null}
{
  "campaignId": "CAMPAIGN_ID",
  "sellerId": "10",
  "products": [
    {
      "productId": "QUALIFIED_PRODUCT_ID",
      "inventorySourceId": "200",
      "salesAgentId": "SELLER_AGENT_ID",
      "pricingOptionId": "RETURNED_PRICING_OPTION_ID",
      "budget": 5000,
      "targetingOverlay": {
        "signal_targeting_groups": {
          "operator": "all",
          "groups": [{
            "operator": "any",
            "signals": [{
              "signal_ref": { "scope": "product", "signal_id": "adults_25_54" },
              "value_type": "numeric",
              "min_value": 25,
              "max_value": 54
            }]
          }]
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "idempotencyKey": "PRODUCT_QUERY_ID"
}
```

Do not reconstruct qualified IDs. When returned, `inventorySourceId`,
`salesAgentId`, and `pricingOptionId` distinguish the exact Product route and
price selected from the returned catalog.
When a returned Product advertises `signal_targeting_options`, select an
eligible Signal through that Product's `targetingOverlay`. Preserve its
`signal_ref`, value type, bounds or values, activation handle, and pricing
identity exactly as returned; the Seller validates eligibility at launch.

`save_media_buy` accepts `flight` when staging from returned products or
accepting a proposal. It accepts top-level `budget` for one returned product or
a one-allocation proposal. For multiple products or allocations, keep the
returned allocation or set `products[].budget` for each selected product.
Accepting a proposal creates one media buy, so every allocation must use the
same settlement currency and seller route. If a proposal spans currencies or
seller routes, `save_media_buy` rejects it before claiming the proposal or
creating a draft; request separate proposals by currency or seller route.

## 5. Inspect staged work

List media buys under the campaign:

```json theme={null}
{ "kind": "media_buy", "filter": { "campaignId": "CAMPAIGN_ID" } }
```

Or list every current buy for an advertiser across its campaigns, paged
(`limit` up to 200; pass back `nextCursor` for the next page):

```json theme={null}
{ "kind": "media_buy", "filter": { "advertiserId": "ADVERTISER_ID" }, "limit": 50 }
```

Each row reports its `campaignId` (when the buy belongs to a campaign), phase,
pause state, flight, the seller (as
`sellerId` plus `sellerName`), and the buy's gross budget. `sellerId` is always
a Storefront ID, never an internal customer ID. It does not retain
Proposal evidence after the acceptance response, so preserve the
`proposalSource` fields returned by `save_media_buy` when that audit link
matters. When both filters are present, `campaignId` wins. An advertiser that
is not in your account returns `NOT_FOUND`, not an empty list.

Read one buy's execution tree with `get`:

```json theme={null}
{ "kind": "media_buy", "id": "MEDIA_BUY_ID", "include": ["products"] }
```

The base object carries `campaignId`, `sellerId`, `sellerName`, `budget`,
`flight`, and the why-visibility fields (`pendingReason`, `errorCode`,
`forwardedAt`, `buyerReference`). Includes add:

| Include           | Returns                                                                                                                       |
| ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `products`        | Line items (`products[]`): each seller product with its budget, human-readable accepted formats, and the packages cut from it |
| `creatives`       | Creatives attached to the buy, each with a readable format label, status, and seller review state                             |
| `deliverySummary` | The latest aggregate delivery snapshot, or `null` when none has been recorded yet                                             |
| `liveStatus`      | A fresh status read from the sales agent, including the current upstream status, blockers, and any pending reason             |

Any other include is echoed in `unavailableIncludes` with the reason. The
`content[0].text` of every read mirrors these facts — seller names, budgets,
line items, packages, and format labels — so an agent reading only text sees
the same buy a structured-first host does. Proposal reads and
`request_proposals` outcomes name their sellers the same way.

Archive is a visibility flag, not a lifecycle phase. A read or
`search(kind: "media_buy", filter: { isArchived: true })` reports an archived
buy with `isArchived: true` and its preserved phase. This lets you distinguish
an archived draft from a completed or canceled buy.

Older archived buys may report `phase: "completed"` because the previous
archive lifecycle overwrote their status with `ARCHIVED` and did not retain the
earlier phase. `completed` is a compatibility stand-in for those rows, not a
record of their pre-archive phase.

At this step, inspect each draft, apply any supported correction with
`save_media_buy({ mediaBuyId: ... })`, and continue only when the staged set is
the one you intend to launch. Supported corrections on a draft:

* `flight` — move the start or end date.
* `budget` — a new total, on a draft with exactly one line item.
* `products[]` — per line item, change `budget`, `bidPrice`, or
  `pricingOptionId`, or set `remove: true` to drop the line item. A product
  that is not already on the buy cannot be added; stage a new media buy for it.
* `isArchived: true` — drop an unwanted draft altogether. The campaign is
  unchanged. Only a draft can be dropped this way; a dispatched buy is
  cancelled through the campaign or the v2 update contract.

To pause one running media buy without pausing its campaign or sibling media
buys, call `save_media_buy` with its `mediaBuyId`, `isPaused: true`, and an
`idempotencyKey`. To resume that same buy, call it again with `isPaused: false`.
Send `isPaused` on its own: do not combine it with a flight, budget, product,
or archive change. Only an `ACTIVE` buy can be paused and only a `PAUSED` buy
can be resumed.

Anything the draft cannot absorb (a new product, a different inventory source
or seller route, changed Signal targeting, restoring an archived buy) is
refused with `NOT_IMPLEMENTED` naming the field, never silently ignored.

## 5a. Review the draft before going live

When the host renders MCP Apps, `open_campaign_receipt` opens **Review & go
live** for one draft campaign: its budget and flight, the staged media buys
with their budget split, why each buy is not live yet, and the readiness
blockers still standing between the draft and launch (a creative that is not
ready, or no media buys staged). The tool returns the shared MCP App directive,
a compact text summary of the same facts, and the projected receipt in
`structuredContent.receipt`. It reads only: going live remains the explicit
`save_campaign` step below.

```json theme={null}
{
  "name": "open_campaign_receipt",
  "arguments": { "campaignId": "cmp_987654321" }
}
```

The receipt covers draft campaigns only. For a campaign that has already gone
live, `open_campaigns_page` with the same `campaignId` opens its record
instead. The headless equivalent is
`get({kind: "campaign", id, include: ["mediaBuys"]})`, whose `mode: "review"`
workspace carries the same `readiness.blockers`.

## 6. Launch explicitly

Launch is a two-call update to an existing campaign, not part of campaign
creation. First preview — this call launches nothing:

```json theme={null}
{
  "campaignId": "CAMPAIGN_ID",
  "desiredPhase": "active",
  "idempotencyKey": "acme-autumn-launch-preview-v1"
}
```

The response is `action: "pending_confirmation"` with `campaign.revision` and,
under `launch`, the media buys that would go live and their combined budget.
Show it to the buyer. Only after they say yes, confirm with the previewed
revision:

```json theme={null}
{
  "campaignId": "CAMPAIGN_ID",
  "expectedRevision": 1,
  "desiredPhase": "active",
  "confirmLaunch": true,
  "idempotencyKey": "acme-autumn-launch-v1"
}
```

See [Launch a campaign with explicit confirmation](/v2/setup/v3/tool-reference#launch-a-campaign-with-explicit-confirmation)
for the full preview shape.

Do not combine launch with pause or archive in the same call. A launch can
partially write downstream execution state even when no media buy activates;
read the structured error, fix the cause, re-read the campaign revision, and
retry deliberately.

## 7. Query campaign delivery

Use `get_delivery` with `report: "campaign_delivery"`. Supply either an explicit
UTC date range of at most 90 inclusive days or `range: { "lifetime": true }`
for everything from the campaign's earliest reported delivery to today, and
choose only the metrics and dimensions needed by the caller:

```json theme={null}
{
  "report": "campaign_delivery",
  "metrics": ["impressions", "clicks", "spend", "ctr"],
  "dimensions": ["date", "campaign", "media_buy", "package"],
  "range": {
    "startDate": "2026-09-01",
    "endDate": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "filters": {
    "campaignId": "CAMPAIGN_ID"
  },
  "limit": 25
}
```

For the whole life of a campaign, grouped by the seller it ran with:

```json theme={null}
{
  "report": "campaign_delivery",
  "metrics": ["impressions", "spend"],
  "dimensions": ["seller", "sales_agent"],
  "range": { "lifetime": true },
  "filters": { "campaignId": "CAMPAIGN_ID" }
}
```

The response echoes the resolved window as `period` and always carries
`totals`: the same rollup as the rows, over every matched row rather than the
page (`totals.rowsIncluded` equals `page.total`). When matched rows span more
than one currency, `totals.currency` is null and money metrics are
`unavailable` with `reason: "currency_unavailable"`; counts and unitless rates
still total. Nothing is FX-converted.

`seller` is the storefront the buy was placed with and `sales_agent` the AdCP
sales agent behind it, both resolved from the products on the buy. A row whose
seller cannot be attributed keeps `seller: null`, groups with its peers, and
still counts in `totals`; it is never folded into another seller or dropped.

Filter by `advertiserId`, `campaignId`, `channelGroupId`, `mediaBuyId`, or
`packageId`. `channelGroupId` is applied before the report is bounded, so rows
from other Campaign groups cannot displace matching rows.
`packageId` requires a bounded date range (`startDate` and `endDate`, at most
90 days) and cannot be combined with `range: { "lifetime": true }` — the
reporting operation fetches all campaign data before filtering by package, so
lifetime package filtering is rejected before dispatch. An integrated Media
Company must name at least an advertiser, campaign, or media buy; the server
re-proves that scope against its sandbox advertiser and exact own Storefront
before querying. Advertiser-wide integrated queries also fail closed if any
current buy under that advertiser has wider supply.

Rows preserve the Buyer reporting denomination: `spend`, `ecpm`, `cpc`, and
`cpa` are gross and fee-inclusive where the underlying buy has pinned terms.
The response names its currency and reports numeric zero as available. A null
derived rate remains unavailable when its denominator or conversion signal is
absent.

This projection is seller-reported delivery viewed through the Buyer hierarchy;
it is not Buyer measurement. The V2 compatibility source does not expose
ordered revision evidence, so V3 does not infer `SNAPSHOT` or `OFFICIAL`
finality or billing eligibility. Follow `nextCursor` without changing the
query when `page.truncated` is true.

## 8. Save uploaded assets as a creative

Select the owning advertiser before preparing the upload. Only a finalized JPEG
or PNG `scope3-asset://` reference bound to that advertiser can be passed
verbatim as `sourceAssetRef` to the existing `save_creative` tool, together with
the matching `advertiserId` or `campaignId`. If no advertiser was selected
before preparation, keep using the reference through the existing
account-scoped delivery flow.

For an eligible reference, use the existing creative noun; there is no separate
adoption tool:

```json theme={null}
{
  "campaignId": "CAMPAIGN_ID",
  "name": "Autumn hero",
  "sourceAssetRef": "scope3-asset://v1/123e4567-e89b-42d3-a456-426614174000"
}
```

The upload and campaign must resolve to the same customer and advertiser, and
the authenticated principal must own the upload. Prepared, expired,
cross-customer, and cross-advertiser references are refused. `sourceAssetRef`
cannot be combined with `assets`; its JPEG or PNG media supplies the canonical
`image` format identity.

The private source is temporary. Saving copies its verified bytes into the
governed creative store, so the Creative remains usable after the upload
source expires. The stored manifest contains the governed asset and a one-way
fingerprint only—not the source reference, private path, or a signed URL.

When you include `campaignId`, the server creates the advertiser-scoped
Creative first and then applies the existing idempotent campaign membership.
Retry with the same reference and name if a response is interrupted; the retry
returns the same Creative and finishes a missing attachment. Use
`advertiserId` instead to save it without campaign membership.

For an advertiser Creative with multiple uploaded assets or a promoted MP4,
first search `creative_format` with the advertiser and selected product. Pass
the returned opaque format `id` as `creativeFormatId`, then bind each durable
asset `assetId` to its declared slot in `sourceAssets`. This keeps the Creative
in the advertiser Library without requiring a campaign or contacting a
provider. Ordinary `assets` are unbound and cannot satisfy those format slots:

```json theme={null}
{
  "advertiserId": "ADVERTISER_ID",
  "name": "Autumn video",
  "creativeFormatId": "SIGNED_CREATIVE_FORMAT_ID",
  "sourceAssets": [
    {
      "assetId": "123e4567-e89b-42d3-a456-426614174000",
      "slot": "video",
      "makePrimary": true
    },
    {
      "assetId": "223e4567-e89b-42d3-a456-426614174000",
      "slot": "thumbnail"
    }
  ]
}
```

The signed format is account- and advertiser-bound. The server revalidates its
seller, product route, option, and declaration before reading an asset or
writing the Creative. If `formatKind` or `formatOptionRef` is also supplied, it
must match the selected format. The MP4 must have reached `promoted`, and all
sources must resolve to the same customer, principal, and advertiser. A
successful save confirms the canonical advertiser Creative. For a new Creative
that should be attached immediately, use `campaignId`, `formatKind`, and the
campaign product's exact `formatOptionRef` instead of `advertiserId` and
`creativeFormatId`. The save returns `providerContacted: false`; video
destination delivery remains deferred. Do not claim delivery until later sync
and exact provider readback prove it.

## 9. Author a social creative

A social creative is authored copy, not an uploaded file. `save_creative`
accepts a `social` block and stores each field in the standard AdCP text and
URL slots, so the creative round-trips through `save`, `get`, and `search`
without a preview or transcode step.

```json theme={null}
{
  "campaignId": "CAMPAIGN_ID",
  "name": "Autumn arrivals",
  "formatKind": "image",
  "clickUrl": "https://example.com/autumn",
  "social": {
    "headline": "Autumn arrivals",
    "body": "New season, new looks.",
    "callToAction": "Shop now",
    "displayName": "Acme"
  }
}
```

| Input          | Slot it writes      | Notes                                                                                |
| -------------- | ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `headline`     | `headline`          | Up to 255 characters                                                                 |
| `body`         | `body`              | Primary text, up to 5000 characters                                                  |
| `description`  | `description`       | Secondary description, up to 1000 characters                                         |
| `callToAction` | `call_to_action`    | Label, up to 60 characters                                                           |
| `displayName`  | `display_name`      | Brand or page display name                                                           |
| `clickUrl`     | `click_url`         | The click destination; top-level, not inside `social`                                |
| `components[]` | the `slot` you name | `{ "slot": "ad_text", "text": "..." }` or `{ "slot": "landing_page", "url": "..." }` |

Platforms name the same authored field differently (TikTok uses `display_name`
and `ad_text`, Meta uses `primary_text`). When a creative is pinned to a
platform format, the format declaration decides which slot ids are valid: the
save is refused with the list of declared slots if a slot is not declared, and
per-slot length limits apply. Use `components` to write those platform-native
slots. Page or profile identity (a Facebook Page, an Instagram account) is not a
`save_creative` field; a format that declares it as a slot takes it through
`components`.

Social copy is content but carries no format identity, so a new creative still
needs `formatKind` (for example `image` or `video_hosted`) or a media asset.
On update (`creativeId` + `campaignId`), each slot named in `social` replaces
the existing value on that slot and unnamed slots are left unchanged.

### Read a creative in full

`get` with `kind: "creative"`, `sourceId` (the campaign ID), and `id` returns
the complete record:

| Section      | Contents                                                                                        |
| ------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `scope`      | `campaign` or `advertiser`, with `campaignId` and `advertiserId` beside it                      |
| `format`     | Canonical `kind`, the scoped `optionRef` when pinned, the stored `mediaKind`, `requiresUpgrade` |
| `authored`   | Typed copy read back from the slots, `clickUrl`, and every slot verbatim in `components`        |
| `assets`     | Stored media metadata: type, MIME type, slot, dimensions, duration, size, primary flag          |
| `lifecycle`  | `isArchived` (always `false` on a successful read), `requiresUpgrade`, sync state               |
| `membership` | `campaignId` and, on advertiser-scoped lists, `reuseCount`                                      |

Format identity is canonical only: a creative read never carries a legacy
`agent_url`. A creative without a canonical `formatKind` reports
`requiresUpgrade: true` and cannot be assigned to a new media buy until it is
upgraded through the v2 API.

### Filter creative search

`search` with `kind: "creative"` scopes by `filter.campaignId` or
`filter.advertiserId`. An advertiser-scoped search narrows with `formatKind`,
`assetType` (media kind, for example `IMAGE` or `VIDEO`), `role` (`evergreen`
or `reference`), `source` (`uploaded`, `generated`, `connected`), and
`promoted`. A campaign-scoped search supports `query` only, and the narrowing
filters are refused under campaign scope rather than silently ignored. Each row reports
`formatKind`, `mediaKind`, `assetCount`, and `requiresUpgrade`; the text block
repeats them for text-only hosts. Pagination is the opaque `cursor` from the
previous page. Filters by readiness state, archive state, or media-buy
assignment are not available: archived creatives are not listable, and an
`isArchived: true` filter is refused rather than returning the active list.

### Archive a creative

`save_creative` with `isArchived: true`, `creativeId`, and `advertiserId`
removes the creative from every campaign and frees its name, so a later create
under the same name is a new creative rather than a dedupe hit. Archiving is
permanent: `isArchived: false` is refused, an archived creative reads as
`NOT_FOUND`, and there is no `allowArchived` read for creatives.

## Interactive buyer Pages

Three buyer Pages have fixed v3 owners. Each owner binds one MCP App resource
in its tool descriptor, so a host that renders MCP Apps opens the same Page
from Murph, Claude, or ChatGPT; a host that does not render them receives the
text summary. The Pages self-fetch their data, so none of these launchers puts
the list into model context — use `search` and `get` for text answers.

| Tool                    | Page                                                                                           | Arguments                                                |
| ----------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| `open_advertisers_page` | Advertisers — every advertiser with campaign and draft counts and one next action each         | none                                                     |
| `open_campaigns_page`   | Campaigns — status, flight, and budget per campaign; open one for its media buys and creatives | optional `advertiserId` (scope) and `campaignId` (focus) |
| `open_campaign_receipt` | Review & go live — one draft campaign's plan, staged media buys, and readiness blockers        | required `campaignId` of a draft campaign                |

The compatibility `open_page` enum never lists these Pages; the owner tool is
their portable contract. Task pages:
[Open Advertisers](/v2/buyer/advertisers/tasks/open-advertisers-page),
[Open Campaigns](/v2/buyer/campaigns/tasks/open-campaigns-page), and
[Open Review & go live](/v2/buyer/campaigns/tasks/open-campaign-receipt).

## Lifecycle operations

* `isPaused: true` pauses an active campaign; `false` reactivates it.
* `isArchived: true` archives it from default lists without changing its phase,
  pause state, media buys, or budget commitment. It is refused while any
  executable or unsettled media buy remains; cancel or settle each named buy
  first, then archive the campaign.
* `isArchived: false` restores an archived campaign with the same phase and
  pause state it had when archived. Send it alone, then re-read the campaign
  before making further changes. Legacy rows whose status was overwritten to
  `ARCHIVED` have no recoverable earlier phase: they read as archived with
  `phase: "completed"`, including in an archived completed-phase search, and
  cannot be restored; create a new campaign instead.
* `desiredPhase: "canceled"` terminally cancels the campaign without
  cancelling its media buys. Send it alone with the current `expectedRevision`.
  If executable or unsettled buys remain, the request is rejected before any
  write and names every blocker; explicitly cancel or settle those buys first.
  If the response is lost, re-read the campaign and retry with its committed
  revision. An already cancelled campaign then returns its terminal state.
  This cancellation request is separate from archive and does not archive the campaign.
* `save_creative` with `isArchived: true` archives a creative permanently and
  frees its name; creative unarchive does not exist, so `isArchived: false` is
  refused (see [Author a social creative](#8-author-a-social-creative)).
* A tracked campaign is read-only until it is adopted or duplicated through
  the existing v2 workflow.
* `autonomy` fields are accepted for forward compatibility but are not
  persisted yet.

See [Preview limitations](/v2/setup/v3/limitations) before replacing a v2 buyer
integration.
