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You can stop all agent spend at once, from DATALYR or from chat. DATALYR also stops agents on its own after repeated rejected ads, and emails you when something needs a person.

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Stop agent ads

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Open the setting

Open Settings → Ad publishing. Find Stop agent ads under Live ads.
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Select Stop

Select Stop.
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Confirm

Select Pause everything agents turned on.
An owner or admin can press Stop. From chat, ask the agent to stop: it calls stop_agent_ads right away, with no preview. Any connection at Create paused or Publish live can call it, for everything or for one platform or ad account (for example, “stop the Meta ads”). Stop leaves alone anything a person turned on, and any object an agent paused that a person later turned back on. The result says how many objects it paused. If some couldn’t be paused, it names them. Pause those in Ads Manager: on Meta, filter by the label datalyr-agent. On TikTok and Google Ads, search for names ending in · dl-. To start again, the owner switches live ads back on per ad account under Live ads.

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The rejected-ads pause

If a platform rejects 3 ads that agents created in one ad account within 24 hours, agents stop there. Nothing already created changes. Read the rejection reasons, fix the cause, then select Turn back on. An owner or admin can do this. Turn the pause off with Stop agents after 3 rejected ads in 24 hours under Safety. It is on by default. DATALYR re-reads the review status of agent-made ads every 15 minutes for 7 days after they are created.

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Emails

Every email goes to the workspace’s owners and admins. Alarm emails and Daily digest are under Settings → Ad publishing → Notifications. Both are on by default.

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The activity log

Open Settings → Ad publishing and select the Activity tab. Agents read the same log with list_ad_activity. Each entry names who did it: the person, the MCP connection, or the API key.

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Verify

  1. Select Stop.
  2. Select Pause everything agents turned on.
  3. Confirm the message Stopped. Paused N. or Stopped. Live ads are off.
  4. Confirm every Live ads switch is off.
  5. In Ads Manager, confirm the agent-made objects show as paused.

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