How to integrate Reddit Ads MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK

This guide walks you through connecting Reddit Ads to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Reddit Ads agent that can summarize active reddit campaigns by spend, create conversion report for last week, pause underperforming reddit ad groups through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Reddit Ads account through Composio's Reddit Ads MCP server. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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Reddit Ads is Reddit's advertising platform for running paid campaigns, managing ad accounts, and tracking conversions. It helps advertisers reach high-intent communities with targeted, interest-based campaigns.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Reddit Ads to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Reddit Ads agent that can summarize active reddit campaigns by spend, create conversion report for last week, pause underperforming reddit ad groups through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Reddit Ads account through Composio's Reddit Ads MCP server.

Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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TL;DR

Here's what you'll learn:
  • Get and set up your OpenAI and Composio API keys
  • Install the necessary dependencies
  • Initialize Composio and create a Tool Router session for Reddit Ads
  • Configure an AI agent that can use Reddit Ads as a tool
  • Run a live chat session where you can ask the agent to perform Reddit Ads operations

What is OpenAI Agents SDK?

The OpenAI Agents SDK is a lightweight framework for building AI agents that can use tools and maintain conversation state. It provides a simple interface for creating agents with hosted MCP tool support.

Key features include:

  • Hosted MCP Tools: Connect to external services through hosted MCP endpoints
  • SQLite Sessions: Persist conversation history across interactions
  • Simple API: Clean interface with Agent, Runner, and tool configuration
  • Streaming Support: Real-time response streaming for interactive applications

What is the Reddit Ads MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Reddit Ads MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Reddit Ads account. It provides structured and secure access to your campaigns, audiences, performance data, conversion activity, and product catalogs, so your agent can review account details, monitor campaigns, generate reports, research targeting options, and check conversion activity on your behalf.

  • Campaign and account oversight: Have your agent review your Reddit Ads businesses, ad accounts, campaigns, ad groups, funding instruments, and lead generation forms.
  • Advertising performance reports: Direct your agent to generate metrics reports with selected fields and breakdowns to assess how your ads are performing.
  • Audience and targeting research: Let the agent explore interests, communities, locations, devices, carriers, saved audiences, and custom audiences, validate locations, and estimate campaign reach.
  • Conversion activity checks: Instruct your agent to check when app events or conversion pixels last fired and review SKAdNetwork availability for iOS apps.
  • Catalog and creative review: Have your agent inspect product catalogs, feeds, product sets, products, profiles, and recent promoted or organic Reddit posts.

What is the Composio tool router, and how does it fit here?

What is Composio SDK?

Composio's Composio SDK helps agents find the right tools for a task at runtime. You can plug in multiple toolkits (like Gmail, HubSpot, and GitHub), and the agent will identify the relevant app and action to complete multi-step workflows. This can reduce token usage and improve the reliability of tool calls. Read more here: Getting started with Composio SDK

The tool router generates a secure MCP URL that your agents can access to perform actions.

How the Composio SDK works

The Composio SDK follows a three-phase workflow:

  1. Discovery: Searches for tools matching your task and returns relevant toolkits with their details.
  2. Authentication: Checks for active connections. If missing, creates an auth config and returns a connection URL via Auth Link.
  3. Execution: Executes the action using the authenticated connection.

Step-by-step Guide

Step by step09 STEPS
1

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:
  • Composio API Key and OpenAI API Key
  • Primary know-how of OpenAI Agents SDK
  • A live Reddit Ads project
  • Some knowledge of Python or Typescript
2

Getting API Keys for OpenAI and Composio

OpenAI API Key
  • Go to the OpenAI dashboard and create an API key. You'll need credits to use the models, or you can connect to another model provider.
  • Keep the API key safe.
Composio API Key
3

Install dependencies

npm install @composio/openai-agents @openai/agents dotenv

Install the Composio SDK and the OpenAI Agents SDK.

4

Set up environment variables

bash
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...your-api-key
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your-api-key
USER_ID=composio_user@gmail.com

Create a .env file and add your OpenAI and Composio API keys.

5

Import dependencies

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIAgentsProvider } from '@composio/openai-agents';
import { Agent, hostedMcpTool, run, OpenAIConversationsSession } from '@openai/agents';
import * as readline from 'readline';
What's happening:
  • You're importing all necessary libraries.
  • The Composio and OpenAIAgentsProvider classes are imported to connect your OpenAI agent to Composio tools like Reddit Ads.
6

Set up the Composio instance

dotenv.config();

const composioApiKey = process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY;
const userId = process.env.USER_ID;

if (!composioApiKey) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set. Create a .env file with COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_key');
}
if (!userId) {
  throw new Error('USER_ID is not set');
}

// Initialize Composio
const composio = new Composio({
  apiKey: composioApiKey,
  provider: new OpenAIAgentsProvider(),
});
What's happening:
  • dotenv.config() loads your .env file so COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID are available as environment variables.
  • Creating a Composio instance using the API Key and OpenAIAgentsProvider class.
7

Create a Tool Router session

// Create Tool Router session for Reddit Ads
const session = await composio.create(userId as string, {
  toolkits: ['reddit_ads'],
});
const mcpUrl = session.mcp.url;

What is happening:

  • You give the Tool Router the user id and the toolkits you want available. Here, it is only reddit_ads.
  • The router checks the user's Reddit Ads connection and prepares the MCP endpoint.
  • The returned session.mcp.url is the MCP URL that your agent will use to access Reddit Ads.
  • This approach keeps things lightweight and lets the agent request Reddit Ads tools only when needed during the conversation.
8

Configure the agent

// Configure agent with MCP tool
const agent = new Agent({
  name: 'Assistant',
  model: 'gpt-5',
  instructions:
    'You are a helpful assistant that can access Reddit Ads. Help users perform Reddit Ads operations through natural language.',
  tools: [
    hostedMcpTool({
      serverLabel: 'tool_router',
      serverUrl: mcpUrl,
      headers: { 'x-api-key': composioApiKey },
      requireApproval: 'never',
    }),
  ],
});
What's happening:
  • We're creating an Agent instance with a name, model (gpt-5), and clear instructions about its purpose.
  • The agent's instructions tell it that it can access Reddit Ads and help with queries, inserts, updates, authentication, and fetching database information.
  • The tools array includes a hostedMcpTool that connects to the MCP server URL we created earlier.
  • The headers object includes the Composio API key for secure authentication with the MCP server.
  • requireApproval: 'never' means the agent can execute Reddit Ads operations without asking for permission each time, making interactions smoother.
9

Start chat loop and handle conversation

// Keep conversation state across turns
const conversationSession = new OpenAIConversationsSession();

// Simple CLI
const rl = readline.createInterface({
  input: process.stdin,
  output: process.stdout,
  prompt: 'You: ',
});

console.log('\nComposio Tool Router session created.');
console.log('\nChat started. Type your requests below.');
console.log("Commands: 'exit', 'quit', or 'q' to end\n");

try {
  const first = await run(agent, 'What can you help me with?', { session: conversationSession });
  console.log(`Assistant: ${first.finalOutput}\n`);
} catch (e) {
  console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
}

rl.prompt();

rl.on('line', async (userInput) => {
  const text = userInput.trim();

  if (['exit', 'quit', 'q'].includes(text.toLowerCase())) {
    console.log('Goodbye!');
    rl.close();
    process.exit(0);
  }

  if (!text) {
    rl.prompt();
    return;
  }

  try {
    const result = await run(agent, text, { session: conversationSession });
    console.log(`\nAssistant: ${result.finalOutput}\n`);
  } catch (e) {
    console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
  }

  rl.prompt();
});

rl.on('close', () => {
  console.log('\n👋 Session ended.');
  process.exit(0);
});
What's happening:
  • The program prints a session URL that you visit to authorize Reddit Ads.
  • After authorization, the chat begins.
  • Each message you type is processed by the agent using run().
  • The responses are printed to the console.
  • Typing exit, quit, or q cleanly ends the chat.

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Reddit Ads and OpenAI Agents SDK:

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIAgentsProvider } from '@composio/openai-agents';
import { Agent, hostedMcpTool, run, OpenAIConversationsSession } from '@openai/agents';
import * as readline from 'readline';

const composioApiKey = process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY;
const userId = process.env.USER_ID;

if (!composioApiKey) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set. Create a .env file with COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_key');
}
if (!userId) {
  throw new Error('USER_ID is not set');
}

// Initialize Composio
const composio = new Composio({
  apiKey: composioApiKey,
  provider: new OpenAIAgentsProvider(),
});

async function main() {
  // Create Tool Router session
  const session = await composio.create(userId as string, {
    toolkits: ['reddit_ads'],
  });
  const mcpUrl = session.mcp.url;

  // Configure agent with MCP tool
  const agent = new Agent({
    name: 'Assistant',
    model: 'gpt-5',
    instructions:
      'You are a helpful assistant that can access Reddit Ads. Help users perform Reddit Ads operations through natural language.',
    tools: [
      hostedMcpTool({
        serverLabel: 'tool_router',
        serverUrl: mcpUrl,
        headers: { 'x-api-key': composioApiKey },
        requireApproval: 'never',
      }),
    ],
  });

  // Keep conversation state across turns
  const conversationSession = new OpenAIConversationsSession();

  // Simple CLI
  const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout,
    prompt: 'You: ',
  });

  console.log('\nComposio Tool Router session created.');
  console.log('\nChat started. Type your requests below.');
  console.log("Commands: 'exit', 'quit', or 'q' to end\n");

  try {
    const first = await run(agent, 'What can you help me with?', { session: conversationSession });
    console.log(`Assistant: ${first.finalOutput}\n`);
  } catch (e) {
    console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
  }

  rl.prompt();

  rl.on('line', async (userInput) => {
    const text = userInput.trim();

    if (['exit', 'quit', 'q'].includes(text.toLowerCase())) {
      console.log('Goodbye!');
      rl.close();
      process.exit(0);
    }

    if (!text) {
      rl.prompt();
      return;
    }

    try {
      const result = await run(agent, text, { session: conversationSession });
      console.log(`\nAssistant: ${result.finalOutput}\n`);
    } catch (e) {
      console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
    }

    rl.prompt();
  });

  rl.on('close', () => {
    console.log('\nSession ended.');
    process.exit(0);
  });
}

main().catch((err) => {
  console.error('Fatal error:', err);
  process.exit(1);
});

Conclusion

This was a starter code for integrating Reddit Ads MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK to build a functional AI agent that can interact with Reddit Ads.

Key features:

  • Hosted MCP tool integration through Composio's Tool Router
  • SQLite session persistence for conversation history
  • Simple async chat loop for interactive testing
You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom business logic, or building a web interface around the agent.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Reddit Ads action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Create Ad Group

Tool to create a new ad group within a Reddit Ads campaign.

Create Batch Products

Tool to create or update multiple products in a catalog in a single batch operation.

Create Reddit Ads Campaign

Tool to create a new Reddit Ads campaign for the specified ad account.

Create Custom Audience

Tool to create a new Custom Audience in Reddit Ads.

Create Lead Gen Form

Tool to create a new lead generation form in Reddit Ads.

Create Reddit Post

Tool to create a new Reddit post for a specified profile.

Create Product Catalog

Tool to create a new product catalog.

Create Product Feed

Tool to create a new feed for a product catalog.

Create Product Set

Tool to create a new product set in a product catalog.

Create Saved Audience

Tool to create a saved audience for a Reddit Ads ad account with targeting criteria.

Create Structured Post Creation Job

Tool to create a structured post creation job on Reddit Ads.

Delete Custom Audience

Tool to delete a Custom Audience by ID from Reddit Ads.

Delete Product Catalog

Tool to delete a product catalog by ID from Reddit Ads.

Delete Product Feed

Tool to delete a feed in a catalog by ID from Reddit Ads.

Batch Delete Products

Tool to delete multiple products from a Reddit Ads product catalog in a single request.

Delete Product Set

Tool to delete a product set by ID from Reddit Ads.

Validate Geolocations

Tool to validate a list of geolocations for use in Reddit Ads targeting.

Do Keyword Validations

Tool to validate a list of keywords for targeting and check their brand safety status.

Generate Inspiration Creative Summary

Tool to get AI-generated summary of best practices followed by an inspiration creative ad.

Get Ad Account by ID

Tool to retrieve details for a specific Reddit ad account by ID.

Get ad account history

Get changelog history for a Reddit ad account with filtering options.

Get Ad Group

Tool to get an ad group by its ID from Reddit Ads API.

Get App Last Fired At Report

Tool to retrieve the last time mobile conversion events were fired for a specific app ID.

Get A Report

Tool to generate a metrics report for ad performance based on specified fields and breakdowns.

Get Business by ID

Tool to get business details by ID from the Reddit Ads API.

Get Campaign by ID

Retrieve a specific Reddit Ads campaign by its ID.

Get Channel Planning Reach

Tool to retrieve estimated reach data for a given set of targeting parameters.

Get Child Funding Instruments

Tool to retrieve a list of Funding Instrument Allocations for a parent funding instrument.

Get Custom Audience

Tool to retrieve a custom audience by ID from Reddit Ads API.

Get Lead Gen Form by ID

Tool to retrieve details for a specific lead generation form by ID from Reddit Ads.

Get Authenticated Member

Tool to get the authenticated member's information from the Reddit Ads API.

Get Pixel Last Fired At Report

Tool to retrieve the last time conversion events were fired for a specific conversion pixel.

Get Post by ID

Tool to retrieve a promoted or organic Reddit post by its ID.

Get Product Catalog

Tool to retrieve a specific product catalog by ID from the Reddit Ads API.

Get Product Feed

Tool to retrieve metadata for a specific product feed by ID.

Get Product Set

Tool to retrieve metadata for a specific product set by ID from the Reddit Ads API.

Get Profile by ID

Tool to retrieve details for a specific profile by ID from the Reddit Ads API.

Get Saved Audience

Tool to retrieve a saved audience by ID from Reddit Ads API.

Get SKAdNetwork Availability

Tool to get SKAdNetwork IDs availability quota for an iOS app.

Get Structured Post by ID

Tool to retrieve a structured post by its ID from the Reddit Ads API.

List 3rd Party Audiences

Tool to retrieve all available 3rd party audiences from Reddit Ads API for targeting purposes.

List Ad Accounts By Business

Tool to get a list of ad accounts under a business on Reddit Ads.

List Ad Groups

Tool to list ad groups for a Reddit ad account.

List Ads

Tool to list ads by ad account on Reddit Ads platform.

List Campaigns

Tool to list campaigns by ad account with pagination support.

List Carriers

Tool to retrieve all available carriers from Reddit Ads API for targeting purposes.

List Catalog Imports

Tool to retrieve all imports for a catalog.

List Communities

Tool to list targetable communities matched by their names.

List Communities Suggestions

Tool to fetch suggested communities for given community names from Reddit Ads API.

List Devices

Tool to retrieve all available devices from Reddit Ads API for targeting purposes.

List Funding Instruments

Tool to list funding instruments (payment methods) for a Reddit Ads ad account.

List Geolocations

Tool to fetch a list of geolocations from Reddit Ads API.

List Industries

Tool to retrieve all available industries from Reddit Ads API.

List Interests

Tool to retrieve all available interests from Reddit Ads API for targeting purposes.

List Lead Gen Forms

Tool to list lead generation forms for a Reddit Ads ad account.

List My Businesses

Tool to retrieve details of businesses associated with the provided access token.

List Pixels By Ad Account

Tool to list pixels by ad account.

List Pixels by Business

Tool to list all pixels associated with a specific business.

List Posts by Profile

Tool to list up to 1,000 of the most recent posts for a specified profile.

List Product Catalogs

Tool to retrieve details for all product catalogs belonging to a business.

List Product Feeds

Tool to retrieve metadata for all feeds in a product catalog.

List Product Sets

Tool to retrieve all product sets in a catalog.

List Products In Product Catalog

Tool to retrieve all products in a Reddit Ads product catalog.

List Products In Product Set

Tool to retrieve all products in a Reddit Ads product set.

List Profiles By Ad Account

Tool to list profiles by ad account from Reddit Ads API.

List Profiles By Business

Tool to list profiles by business.

List Saved Audiences

Tool to list saved audiences for a Reddit ad account.

List Structured Posts

Tool to list structured posts for a profile or retrieve up to 10 specific structured posts by ID.

List Time Zones

Tool to retrieve all available time zones from Reddit Ads API for campaign scheduling.

List User Custom Audiences

Tool to list all Custom Audiences under an ad account.

Query Ad Accounts

Tool to query ad accounts by business with optional filtering by actors, assets, roles, or custom filter string.

Query funding instruments by business

Query funding instruments (credit lines) by business with pagination support.

Search Communities

Tool to search for Reddit communities based on their name or topic.

Update Ad Account

Tool to update a Reddit ad account configuration.

Update Business

Tool to update a business by ID in Reddit Ads.

Update Campaign

Tool to update a campaign by ID in Reddit Ads.

Update Custom Audience Users

Tool to update users in a Reddit Ads Custom Audience by adding or removing user identifiers.

Update Post

Tool to update a Reddit post by ID.

Update Product Catalog

Tool to update a product catalog's name or attached Pixel IDs in Reddit Ads.

Update Product Feed

Tool to update a product feed's metadata in Reddit Ads.

Update Product Set

Tool to update a product set's name and filter rules in Reddit Ads.

Update Saved Audience

Tool to update a saved audience by ID in Reddit Ads.

Update Structured Post

Tool to update a structured post by ID.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Reddit Ads MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Reddit Ads tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Reddit Ads and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. OpenAI Agents SDK fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Reddit Ads tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Reddit Ads scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Reddit Ads data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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