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meta_ads_create_lookalike

Meta Ads tool. Create a Lookalike Audience based on an existing custom audience. Args: source_audience_id: Custom audience ID to base lookalike on (required). countries: Comma-separated country codes, e.g. 'US,CA,GB' (required). ratio: Lookalike ratio 0.01–0.20 (1% to 20% of population). Default 0.01. account_id: Ad account ID. Leave blank to use .env default.

This is a write tool: it creates lookalike in your Meta Ads account. Claude asks you to confirm before it runs.

Ask Claude

You do not call this tool yourself. Ask for the outcome and the client picks the tool:

Create lookalike in my Meta Ads account for [source audience id], [countries].

It takes 2 required and 2 optional parameters.

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
source_audience_idstringYesSource Audience Id
countriesstringYesCountries
rationumberNoRatio
account_idstringNoAccount Id

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Before you can call it

This tool needs a connected Meta Ads account. The Meta Ads connect guide covers the OAuth flow and the permissions it asks for, and the quickstart gets a client talking to the server in about five minutes.

Workflows that use this

Rather than calling tools one at a time, these skills run a whole procedure against the same account:

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