Get your most recent uploaded videos with basic stats.
AI agents call youtube_getMyRecentVideos to retrieve information from YouTube 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 uploaded videos and their statistics from the user's own channel. It performs a read-only query with no side effects—no data is created, modified, deleted, or irreversibly changed. The blast radius of misuse is minimal; an agent could only exfiltrate the user's video metadata, which is typically already public or semi-public on YouTube.
From the tool's definition Tool name and description indicate retrieval of existing data: 'Get your most recent uploaded videos with basic stats.' The verb 'Get' and the phrase 'with basic stats' confirm data querying without modification, deletion, or external execution.
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Get your most recent uploaded videos with basic stats. It is categorised as a Read tool in the YouTube MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the YouTube MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for youtube_getMyRecentVideos: 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 YouTube MCP Server. Nothing to install.
youtube_getMyRecentVideos 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 youtube_getMyRecentVideos 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 youtube_getMyRecentVideos. 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.
youtube_getMyRecentVideos is provided by the YouTube MCP Server MCP server (lauragift21/youtube-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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