Get live notifications including comments, assignments, sharing invitations, and other collaboration events.
AI agents call todoist_notifications_get to retrieve information from Mcp Todoist without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This is a read-only operation that queries and returns existing notification data without creating, modifying, or deleting any resources. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an attacker could see notifications a user has access to, but this does not expose sensitive data beyond what the authenticated user already has access to, and causes no state changes.
From the tool's definition The tool name contains 'get' and the description states it retrieves 'live notifications including comments, assignments, sharing invitations, and other collaboration events' with no mention of modification, deletion, or side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get live notifications including comments, assignments, sharing invitations, and other collaboration events. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Todoist MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Todoist MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for todoist_notifications_get: 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 Todoist. Nothing to install.
todoist_notifications_get 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 todoist_notifications_get 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 todoist_notifications_get. 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.
todoist_notifications_get is provided by the Mcp Todoist MCP server (@greirson/mcp-todoist). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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