Find Google Docs and Google Sheets cleanup candidates, including untitled files, empty files, and root-level files.
AI agents call gdrive_find_cleanup_candidates to retrieve information from Google Drive 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 search and discovery tool that retrieves information about files matching cleanup criteria. It has no side effects—it does not modify, delete, or execute operations on the identified files. The actual cleanup (deletion) would require a separate tool like gdrive_trash_files. Finding candidates is purely informational, making it a Read operation with low severity.
From the tool's definition Tool searches for and identifies cleanup candidates (untitled files, empty files, root-level files) without modifying or deleting any data. Description uses find/identify language consistent with discovery operations.
Risk signalsAdmin/system-level operation
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Find Google Docs and Google Sheets cleanup candidates, including untitled files, empty files, and root-level files. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Google Drive MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Google Drive MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for gdrive_find_cleanup_candidates: 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 Google Drive MCP Server. Nothing to install.
gdrive_find_cleanup_candidates 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 gdrive_find_cleanup_candidates 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 gdrive_find_cleanup_candidates. 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.
gdrive_find_cleanup_candidates is provided by the Google Drive MCP Server MCP server (konashevich/mcp-gdrive). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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