List all photo albums
AI agents call immich_list_albums to retrieve information from Crow without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a retrieval operation only. It queries and returns a list of existing photo albums without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any external operations. While it accesses user photo metadata, listing is a benign read operation with minimal blast radius if misused by an AI agent.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'immich_list_albums' and description states 'List all photo albums' — a query operation that retrieves data without modification or side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access immich_list_albums gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Crow, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for immich_list_albums:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"immich_list_albums": {}
}
} immich_list_albums is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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List all photo albums. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Crow MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Crow MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for immich_list_albums: 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 Crow. Nothing to install.
immich_list_albums 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 immich_list_albums 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 immich_list_albums. 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.
immich_list_albums is provided by the Crow MCP server (kh0pper/crow). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Crow, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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