Get detailed information about a specific YouTube video.
AI agents call youtube_getVideoDetails 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 and queries video information without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a straightforward read operation that returns analytics and metadata about a specific video. The sibling tools (getAnalytics, getChannelInfo, getChannelVideos, getDemographics, searchVideos) all follow the same read-only pattern, reinforcing this classification.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'youtube_getVideoDetails' and description 'Get detailed information about a specific YouTube video' indicate retrieval of existing video metadata with no modification or side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get detailed information about a specific YouTube video. 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_getVideoDetails: 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_getVideoDetails 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_getVideoDetails 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_getVideoDetails. 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_getVideoDetails 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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