Retrieves information about clickable elements in the current UI. Returns a formatted string containing details about each clickable element, including its text, content description, bounds, and center coordinates. Returns: str: A formatted list of clickable elements with their properties
AI agents call get_uilayout to retrieve information from Android MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a query operation to analyze and return UI layout data without modifying the device state, executing commands, or triggering actions. It is purely informational analysis of the current UI structure, fitting the Read category. The low severity reflects minimal blast radius—an AI agent misusing this would only gain UI inspection information without ability to perform actions or modify the device.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves information about clickable elements in the current UI, returning a formatted string containing read-only details (text, content description, bounds, coordinates) with no modification or execution capability.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_uilayout gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Android MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_uilayout:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_uilayout": {}
}
}get_uilayout is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Retrieves information about clickable elements in the current UI. Returns a formatted string containing details about each clickable element, including its text, content description, bounds, and center coordinates. Returns: str: A formatted list of clickable elements with their properties. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Android MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Android MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_uilayout: 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 Android MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_uilayout 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_uilayout 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_uilayout. 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_uilayout is provided by the Android MCP Server MCP server (minhalvp/android-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Android MCP Server, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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