Get paused playback progress for movies or episodes to resume later
AI agents call get_playback to retrieve information from Trakt 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 playback progress information to enable users to resume viewing. It queries stored data without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. The action is purely informational and read-only, making it a Read category tool with low severity since misuse would only expose viewing history data.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_playback' and description 'Get paused playback progress for movies or episodes to resume later' indicate retrieval of existing playback state data with no modification or side effects.
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Get paused playback progress for movies or episodes to resume later. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Trakt MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Trakt MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_playback: 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 Trakt MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_playback 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_playback 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_playback. 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_playback is provided by the Trakt MCP Server MCP server (kud/mcp-trakt). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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