Get main-grid profile publications, including reels, posts, and carousels.
AI agents call get_profile_publications to retrieve information from Instagram 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 publicly available Instagram profile publications without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a straightforward data retrieval operation with no side effects, fitting the Read category. The low severity reflects minimal blast radius—an agent requesting profile publications causes no harm to accounts or data integrity.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_profile_publications' and description 'Get main-grid profile publications, including reels, posts, and carousels' indicate retrieval of publicly visible profile data with no modification or deletion of data.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_profile_publications gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Instagram, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_profile_publications:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_profile_publications": {}
}
}get_profile_publications is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get main-grid profile publications, including reels, posts, and carousels. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Instagram MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Instagram MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_profile_publications: 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 Instagram. Nothing to install.
get_profile_publications 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_profile_publications 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_profile_publications. 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_profile_publications is provided by the Instagram MCP server (lupikovoleg/instagram-cli). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Instagram, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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