List the boosts applied to a channel/supergroup (premium.GetBoostsList). Returns paginated boost entries with id, userId (or undefined for anonymous gift boosts), date, expires, flags (gift, giveaway, unclaimed), optional giveawayMsgId, usedGiftSlug, multiplier, and stars. Requires channel admin ...
AI agents call telegram-get-boosts-list to retrieve information from MCP-Telegram 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 boosts on a channel/supergroup without creating, modifying, or deleting anything. The 'Read-only' designation in the description confirms it has no side effects. While it requires admin permissions to access, the operation itself is purely informational retrieval. Severity is low because reading boost metadata poses minimal risk even if misused by an AI agent.
From the tool's definition Tool description explicitly states 'Read-only' and 'List the boosts applied to a channel/supergroup'. It retrieves and returns paginated data about boosts with no modification or side effects.
Risk signalsAdmin/system-level operation
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access telegram-get-boosts-list gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and MCP-Telegram, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for telegram-get-boosts-list:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"telegram-get-boosts-list": {}
}
}telegram-get-boosts-list is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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List the boosts applied to a channel/supergroup (premium.GetBoostsList). Returns paginated boost entries with id, userId (or undefined for anonymous gift boosts), date, expires, flags (gift, giveaway, unclaimed), optional giveawayMsgId, usedGiftSlug, multiplier, and stars. Requires channel admin permissions. Supports pagination via nextOffset and an optional gifts filter to show only gift boosts. Read-only. It is categorised as a Read tool in the MCP-Telegram MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the MCP-Telegram MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for telegram-get-boosts-list: 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-Telegram. Nothing to install.
telegram-get-boosts-list 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 telegram-get-boosts-list 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 telegram-get-boosts-list. 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.
telegram-get-boosts-list is provided by the MCP-Telegram MCP server (mcp-telegram/mcp-telegram). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from MCP-Telegram, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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