Get Contacts Note: This API endpoint is deprecated. Please use the [Search Contacts](https://highlevel.stoplight.io/docs/integrations/dbe4f3a00a106-search-contacts) endpoint instead.
AI agents call get-contacts to retrieve information from GoHighLevel MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves or queries contact information from GoHighLevel without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing operations. It is a straightforward Read operation. The low severity reflects that retrieving contact data has minimal blast radius—sensitive exposure is a concern but no irreversible changes or financial operations occur.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get-contacts' and description 'Get Contacts' indicate data retrieval with no modification. The tool queries existing contact data without side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get-contacts gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and GoHighLevel MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get-contacts:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get-contacts": {}
}
}get-contacts is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get Contacts Note: This API endpoint is deprecated. Please use the [Search Contacts](https://highlevel.stoplight.io/docs/integrations/dbe4f3a00a106-search-contacts) endpoint instead. It is categorised as a Read tool in the GoHighLevel MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the GoHighLevel MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get-contacts: 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 GoHighLevel MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get-contacts 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 get-contacts 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 get-contacts. 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.
get-contacts is provided by the GoHighLevel MCP Server MCP server (drausal/gohighlevel-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from GoHighLevel MCP Server, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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