user_profile
Get a Reddit user's profile information.
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What user_profile does on Reddit Skills
AI agents call user_profile to retrieve information from Reddit Skills without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Why user_profile is rated Low
This tool queries and retrieves publicly available user profile data from Reddit. It performs a read-only operation with no capability to modify, delete, or execute actions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal — an attacker could gather information about a user but cannot perform any destructive, financial, or state-changing operations.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'user_profile' and description states 'Get a Reddit user's profile information' — a retrieval operation with no modification or side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
The rule that runs user_profile safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Reddit Skills, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For user_profile, this is the rule to start with:
user_profile is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Reddit Skills, apply this rule, and every user_profile call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about user_profile
Get a Reddit user's profile information. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Reddit Skills MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Reddit Skills MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for user_profile: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Reddit Skills. Nothing to install.
user_profile is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the user_profile rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for user_profile. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
user_profile is provided by the Reddit Skills MCP server (1146345502/reddit-skills). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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