get_recent_activity

What get_recent_activity does on Trello

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

Why get_recent_activity is rated Low

This tool retrieves historical activity data from a Trello board without creating, modifying, deleting, or triggering external operations. Even if misused by an AI agent, it can only leak or expose existing information, posing minimal risk compared to the write and destructive capabilities present on the same server (archive_card, archive_list, etc.).

From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Fetch recent activity' — a data retrieval operation with no modification or side effects. The verb 'fetch' and absence of any write/delete/execute language confirm this is a read-only query.

The rule that runs get_recent_activity safely

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

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

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