List all enrolled Coursera courses with progress and status. Requires authentication.
AI agents call get_my_courses to retrieve information from Coursera 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 information about the authenticated user's course enrollments and progress status. It performs a simple data query with no capability to create, modify, delete, or trigger external operations. The authentication requirement is a security control, not a risk factor. The read-only nature and bounded scope (user's own courses) classify this as a low-severity Read operation.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_my_courses' and description 'List all enrolled Coursera courses' indicates a retrieval operation with no modification or side effects. The verb 'List' confirms a read-only query that retrieves user enrollment data.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List all enrolled Coursera courses with progress and status. Requires authentication. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Coursera MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Coursera MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_my_courses: 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 Coursera MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_my_courses 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_my_courses 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_my_courses. 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_my_courses is provided by the Coursera MCP Server MCP server (markswendsen-code/mcp-coursera). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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