Get a contact by ID or email address. Returns the full contact record including list memberships, status, and custom fields.
AI agents call get-contact to retrieve information from Mcp Mailtrap 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 contact data without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing operations. It is a simple data retrieval function with no blast radius if misused by an AI agent, though it could expose personal information if an attacker queries arbitrary contact IDs.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Get a contact by ID or email address. Returns the full contact record' — the verb 'Get' and return-only operation confirm no data modification or external side effects occur.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get a contact by ID or email address. Returns the full contact record including list memberships, status, and custom fields. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Mailtrap MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Mailtrap MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get-contact: 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 Mcp Mailtrap. Nothing to install.
get-contact 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-contact 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-contact. 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-contact is provided by the Mcp Mailtrap MCP server (mcp-mailtrap). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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