Get app details including title, description, and developer info.
AI agents call get_app_details to retrieve information from Play Store without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves application metadata from the Google Play Developer API. It queries and returns existing information (title, description, developer info) with no side effects, data modification, deletion, or external action triggering.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_app_details' and description 'Get app details including title, description, and developer info' indicate retrieval of metadata without modification.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_app_details gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Play Store, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_app_details:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_app_details": {}
}
}get_app_details is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get app details including title, description, and developer info. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Play Store MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Play Store MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_app_details: 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 Play Store. Nothing to install.
get_app_details 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_app_details 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_app_details. 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_app_details is provided by the Play Store MCP server (lusky3/play-store-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Play Store, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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