sensor_notifications

What sensor_notifications does on Claude Mobile

AI agents call sensor_notifications to retrieve information from Claude Mobile without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why sensor_notifications is rated Low

This tool retrieves and queries notification data from an Android device without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It has no side effects and does not alter device state. While notifications may contain sensitive information, the tool itself is purely informational. Confidence is high because the description is explicit and unambiguous about its read-only nature.

From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'Read the notification shade from Android' and 'Returns a parsed list of active notifications with title, text, package, and time.' The verb 'Read' and the explicit retrieval of notification data without modification indicate a…

The rule that runs sensor_notifications safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Claude Mobile, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For sensor_notifications, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "sensor_notifications": {}
  }
}

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