Get details for a single Fathom meeting by its recording_id. Finds the meeting in your recent history and fetches its AI-generated summary. Returns: - Meeting title, scheduled times, duration - Recording URL and shareable link - Calendar invitees with names/emails - AI-generated summary (if avail...
AI agents call get_fathom_meeting 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 is a straightforward read operation querying meeting metadata from Fathom. It searches historical records and returns informational content (title, times, summary, URLs, invitee list). While the data returned may be sensitive (meeting titles, invitee emails, summaries), the tool itself performs no side effects, does not execute code or commands, and does not modify or delete data.
From the tool's definition The tool retrieves meeting details, summaries, URLs, and metadata. The description explicitly states it 'Finds the meeting in your recent history and fetches its AI-generated summary' and returns 'Meeting title, scheduled times, duration, Recording…
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_fathom_meeting 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 get_fathom_meeting:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_fathom_meeting": {}
}
}get_fathom_meeting is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get details for a single Fathom meeting by its recording_id. Finds the meeting in your recent history and fetches its AI-generated summary. Returns: - Meeting title, scheduled times, duration - Recording URL and shareable link - Calendar invitees with names/emails - AI-generated summary (if available) Note: Searches through up to 10 pages of recent meetings. For older meetings, use list_fathom_meetings with created_after/created_before date filters first. For transcript content, use get_fathom_transcript separately. Rate limit: May use 1-11 API calls depending on meeting position in history. 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 get_fathom_meeting: 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.
get_fathom_meeting 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_fathom_meeting 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_fathom_meeting. 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_fathom_meeting 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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