Get ranking history for an app over time in a specific country, platform, chart, and category
AI agents call get_rank_history to retrieve information from AppRanks 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 historical ranking data from the App Store. It queries information without creating, modifying, deleting, executing code, or moving money. The read-only nature of ranking history queries presents minimal security risk.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_rank_history' and description 'Get ranking history for an app' indicate a retrieval operation with no modification.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get ranking history for an app over time in a specific country, platform, chart, and category. It is categorised as a Read tool in the AppRanks MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the AppRanks MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_rank_history: 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 AppRanks MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_rank_history 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_rank_history 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_rank_history. 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_rank_history is provided by the AppRanks MCP Server MCP server (kanzelsberger/appranks). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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