Get detailed click analytics for a shortened URL within a date range
AI agents call url_analytics to retrieve information from YOURLS-MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and retrieves historical click statistics for a URL without altering, creating, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a pure read operation with minimal blast radius—at most exposing usage patterns of shortened links, which is informational rather than operationally harmful.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Get detailed click analytics for a shortened URL' — explicitly a retrieval operation with no modification or deletion of data. The analytics data is read-only.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get detailed click analytics for a shortened URL within a date range. It is categorised as a Read tool in the YOURLS-MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the YOURLS- MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for url_analytics: 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 YOURLS-MCP. Nothing to install.
url_analytics 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 url_analytics 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 url_analytics. 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.
url_analytics is provided by the YOURLS- MCP server (kesslerio/yourls-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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