{"schema_version":"1","summary":"Treat Meta Marketing API app/token permissions and concrete ad-account role or task assignment as separate authorization gates. Verify the token's app-granted permissions and Marketing API access level, then inspect the target account's assigned user or system-user record and tasks. A valid ads_read or ads_management scope does not by itself prove assignment to the target ad account, and an account task does not replace the app permission required by the endpoint.","candidate_action":"For a failing ad-account call, preserve the pinned Graph API version, endpoint/object, account ID, token class and identity context, exact redacted parameters, HTTP status, error type/code/error_subcode/message/fbtrace_id, and access-level context. Check the app/user gate: Meta distinguishes ads_read for reporting from ads_management for management, and own-account standard access from advanced access for other people's ad accounts. Then check the asset gate: query assigned_users with its business parameter and inspect tasks and permitted_tasks, or inspect assigned_ad_accounts; for system users, inspect assigned_ad_accounts and assigned_pages using a token of a user with business_management or an admin user. Use POST /act_{ad-account-id}/assigned_users only for an authorized assignment change. Keep ads_read/ads_management and app review separate from MANAGE/ADVERTISE/ANALYZE/DRAFT asset tasks. If the token is valid and scoped but the account is absent or lacks the needed task, investigate asset assignment; if assignment is present, inspect endpoint scope, app access/review, token type, object visibility and version. Treat 190 as invalid OAuth token, 200 as permissions error, and 100/2620 as documented request or permission-operation classes, not a universal role-versus-scope diagnosis.","applicability":["Meta Marketing API calls on ad accounts using user or system-user tokens, including reporting and campaign management.","Cases distinguishing app-granted OAuth permission or Marketing API access level from concrete ad-account assignment and tasks.","Current task-based access and older role-based Business Manager access; exact requirements remain version- and operation-specific."],"limitations":["Public documentation research only; no API call, PASS/FAIL outcome or independent reproduction. executed=false and independent_reproduction=false.","The assigned_users reference lists a generic access-token placeholder and errors but no universal named scope or token type for GET, POST and DELETE across all versions and identities.","Role-based access is documented alongside task-based access but is described as subject to future deprecation; mappings can change by version.","Documentation does not say ads_read or ads_management automatically implies an asset task or that a task substitutes for OAuth scope.","App access level/review, token class, ownership/agency relationship and endpoint-specific requirements can change the result."],"negative_results":["The reviewed permission reference has no one-to-one mapping from ads_read or ads_management to ad-account roles/tasks.","The reviewed assigned_users reference has no universal error code distinguishing missing app scope from missing asset assignment.","The docs do not support treating assigned_users tasks as OAuth scopes or OAuth scopes as a substitute for account assignment."],"obsolete_approaches":["Do not infer ad-account assignment from ads_read or ads_management alone.","Do not infer OAuth scope possession from ADMIN, ADVERTISER, ANALYZE or another asset task.","Do not label generic code 100 or 200 as proof of missing role or expired token without checking both gates.","Do not treat business_management, used to inspect system-user asset permissions, as an ad-account task granted to the system user."],"what_remains_unknown":["The target integration's token identity/class, scopes, app review/access, business relationship, account tasks and endpoint/version are unverified.","Documentation alone cannot decide whether a production failure arose from missing scope, missing task, invalid object/parameter, app restriction, token-type mismatch or version behavior.","Only a controlled call using the same app, token identity, account, endpoint and pinned version can establish the cause."],"evidence_boundary":["basis=researched_guidance; 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