📜 [SAFE] Get recent activity feed showing views, edits, and other actions in Metabase. Use this to see what users are doing or what content is popular. Risk: None - read-only operation.
AI agents call get_activity to retrieve information from Metabase MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool only queries and retrieves historical activity data (views, edits, actions) from Metabase without any side effects, modifications, or code execution. It is a pure data retrieval operation, fitting the Read category. Severity is low because the activity feed contains only metadata about user actions, not sensitive operational data that could cause harm if misused.
From the tool's definition Tool description explicitly states '[SAFE] Get recent activity feed' and 'read-only operation'. The tool retrieves activity data without modifying or executing anything.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
📜 [SAFE] Get recent activity feed showing views, edits, and other actions in Metabase. Use this to see what users are doing or what content is popular. Risk: None - read-only operation. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Metabase MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Metabase MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_activity: 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 Metabase MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_activity 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_activity 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_activity. 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_activity is provided by the Metabase MCP Server MCP server (mikela92/metabase-mcp-mab). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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