Get the configured event data retention settings for a GA4 property.
AI agents call ga_get_data_retention_settings to retrieve information from Apple Shortcuts without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and returns configuration metadata from Google Analytics 4 about data retention policies. It performs no writes, deletions, or external operations. The blast radius of misuse is minimal — an attacker would only gain visibility into retention settings, not modify them or access actual event data.
From the tool's definition Tool name contains 'get' and description states 'Get the configured event data retention settings' — a pure retrieval operation with no side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access ga_get_data_retention_settings gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Apple Shortcuts, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for ga_get_data_retention_settings:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"ga_get_data_retention_settings": {}
}
}ga_get_data_retention_settings is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get the configured event data retention settings for a GA4 property. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apple Shortcuts MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Apple Shortcuts MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for ga_get_data_retention_settings: 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 Apple Shortcuts. Nothing to install.
ga_get_data_retention_settings 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 ga_get_data_retention_settings 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 ga_get_data_retention_settings. 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.
ga_get_data_retention_settings is provided by the Apple Shortcuts MCP server (@mindstone/mcp-server-apple-shortcuts). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Apple Shortcuts, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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