List Instagram Business / Creator accounts connected to Pages the System User manages.
AI agents call list_instagram_accounts to retrieve information from Claude Meta 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 a list of Instagram accounts without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It has no blast radius if misused by an AI agent beyond potentially exposing account connection information. The severity is low because the worst outcome is unauthorized visibility of account metadata, not financial loss, data destruction, or code execution.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'list_instagram_accounts' and description 'List Instagram Business / Creator accounts' clearly indicate data retrieval with no modification or side effects. The verb 'list' is a classic read operation.
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List Instagram Business / Creator accounts connected to Pages the System User manages. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Claude Meta MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Claude Meta MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_instagram_accounts: 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 Claude Meta. Nothing to install.
list_instagram_accounts 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 list_instagram_accounts 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 list_instagram_accounts. 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.
list_instagram_accounts is provided by the Claude Meta MCP server (maxx3250/claude-meta-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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