users_prefs_get

What users_prefs_get does on Slack

AI agents call users_prefs_get to retrieve information from Slack without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why users_prefs_get is rated Low

This tool retrieves user preferences without modifying or deleting data. However, user preferences may contain sensitive personal configuration data (notification settings, display preferences, etc.), warranting medium severity due to potential privacy exposure if misused by an AI agent to extract user-specific information from multiple accounts.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'users_prefs_get' and description 'Get user preferences' indicate data retrieval with no modification. The term 'get' is explicitly a Read operation per the classification rules.

The rule that runs users_prefs_get safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Slack, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For users_prefs_get, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "users_prefs_get": {}
  }
}

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