Get activity statistics for an athlete: recent, year-to-date, and all-time totals for runs, rides, and swims. Includes biggest ride distance and biggest climb.
AI agents call strava_get_athlete_stats to retrieve information from Strava MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This is a straightforward data retrieval operation that queries and returns athlete performance statistics. It has no side effects—it neither creates, modifies, deletes, nor executes external operations. The worst-case misuse would be unauthorized access to an athlete's statistical data, which is a read-only information disclosure risk (low severity).
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves activity statistics (recent, year-to-date, all-time totals) and metrics (biggest ride distance, biggest climb) with no modification or deletion of data.
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Get activity statistics for an athlete: recent, year-to-date, and all-time totals for runs, rides, and swims. Includes biggest ride distance and biggest climb. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Strava MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Strava MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for strava_get_athlete_stats: 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 Strava MCP Server. Nothing to install.
strava_get_athlete_stats 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 strava_get_athlete_stats 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 strava_get_athlete_stats. 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.
strava_get_athlete_stats is provided by the Strava MCP Server MCP server (justmytwospence/strava-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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