List your Instagram media posts with pagination. Returns photos, videos, carousels, and reels from your feed. Use this to audit your content or find media IDs for other operations.
AI agents call list_media to retrieve information from Instagram Complete MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and lists existing Instagram media content with no side effects. It queries data (posts, videos, reels) from the user's feed to enable auditing or finding media IDs for reference by other operations. No data is created, modified, deleted, or executed.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'list_media' and description stating it 'List your Instagram media posts with pagination' and 'Returns photos, videos, carousels, and reels from your feed' — purely retrieves and queries existing content without modification.
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List your Instagram media posts with pagination. Returns photos, videos, carousels, and reels from your feed. Use this to audit your content or find media IDs for other operations. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Instagram Complete MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Instagram Complete MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_media: 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 Instagram Complete MCP Server. Nothing to install.
list_media 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 list_media 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 list_media. 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.
list_media is provided by the Instagram Complete MCP Server MCP server (josephtandle/instagram-complete). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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