Get all Microsoft Todo task lists (the top-level containers that organize your tasks). Shows list names, IDs, and indicates default or shared lists.
AI agents call get-task-lists to retrieve information from My MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and displays metadata about task lists (names, IDs, list status) without creating, modifying, or deleting any data. It has no side effects and poses minimal security risk even if called unexpectedly by an AI agent. Severity is low because the information returned is user's own task list organization, not sensitive external data, and there are no destructive consequences.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get-task-lists' and description 'Get all Microsoft Todo task lists' clearly indicates retrieval of data. The verb 'Get' and 'Shows' confirm read-only operation with no data modification, creation, or deletion.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get-task-lists gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and My MCP, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get-task-lists:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get-task-lists": {}
}
}get-task-lists is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get all Microsoft Todo task lists (the top-level containers that organize your tasks). Shows list names, IDs, and indicates default or shared lists. It is categorised as a Read tool in the My MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the My MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get-task-lists: 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 My MCP. Nothing to install.
get-task-lists 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-task-lists 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-task-lists. 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-task-lists is provided by the My MCP server (jordanburke/microsoft-todo-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from My MCP, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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