Get a Zendesk user by ID. Returns full user details including name, email, role, phone, organization, and custom fields.
AI agents call get_zendesk_user 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 retrieves user information from Zendesk by ID without any side effects. It performs a read-only operation that returns user details (name, email, role, phone, organization, custom fields). No data is created, modified, deleted, or executed.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_zendesk_user' and description 'Get a Zendesk user by ID. Returns full user details...' indicates retrieval of user data with no modification or deletion capability.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_zendesk_user 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_zendesk_user:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_zendesk_user": {}
}
}get_zendesk_user is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get a Zendesk user by ID. Returns full user details including name, email, role, phone, organization, and custom fields. 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_zendesk_user: 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_zendesk_user 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_zendesk_user 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_zendesk_user. 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_zendesk_user 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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