I kept blaming my prompt for the Meta Ads MCP 401, and it turned out Meta was rejecting the token for 3 totally different reasons
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A meta ads mcp 401 is usually not a prompt problem. It is almost always auth. The most common causes I’ve seen are: short-lived user tokens expiring in 1–2 hours long-lived user tokens aging out around 60 days missing app roles, review status, or business asset assignments MCP-specific access restr…
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- 2026-09-12 14:09 · DEV Community — AI
I kept blaming my prompt for the Meta Ads MCP 401, and it turned out Meta was rejecting the token for 3 totally different reasons