List recent mailings (sent emails). Example: {
AI agents call outreach_list_mailings 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.
The tool retrieves and lists sent emails from Outreach without creating, modifying, or deleting any data. This is a read-only query operation with minimal blast radius if misused by an AI agent, as it only exposes historical mailing records the user may already have access to.
From the tool's definition 'List recent mailings (sent emails)' — this is a retrieval operation querying historical email data with no modification capability.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access outreach_list_mailings 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 outreach_list_mailings:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"outreach_list_mailings": {}
}
}outreach_list_mailings is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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List recent mailings (sent emails). Example: {. 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 outreach_list_mailings: 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.
outreach_list_mailings 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 outreach_list_mailings 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 outreach_list_mailings. 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.
outreach_list_mailings 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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