Return top pages from GSC with clicks, impressions, CTR, and position.
AI agents call gsc_top_pages to retrieve information from SEO Analytics MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries Google Search Console data and returns performance metrics (clicks, impressions, click-through rate, position). It is a read-only operation that retrieves metrics for analysis purposes. No data is created, modified, deleted, or irreversibly changed. The worst-case misuse scenario would be unauthorized access to SEO performance data, which has low blast radius compared to other risk categories.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves and returns data ('Return top pages from GSC with clicks, impressions, CTR, and position') without modifying any data or triggering external side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Return top pages from GSC with clicks, impressions, CTR, and position. It is categorised as a Read tool in the SEO Analytics MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the SEO Analytics MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for gsc_top_pages: 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 SEO Analytics MCP. Nothing to install.
gsc_top_pages 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 gsc_top_pages 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 gsc_top_pages. 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.
gsc_top_pages is provided by the SEO Analytics MCP server (jafforgehq/google-analytics-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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