List available business verticals per country. Use to discover what kinds of businesses agents can search for in a given region.
AI agents call get_categories to retrieve information from AI List My Business without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and returns a directory listing of business categories without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any external operations. It is purely informational, suitable for discovery before searching. No PII or financial data is exposed, and no actions are triggered.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'List available business verticals per country' — a retrieval operation with no modification or side effects. Returns catalog metadata only.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List available business verticals per country. Use to discover what kinds of businesses agents can search for in a given region. It is categorised as a Read tool in the AI List My Business MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the AI List My Business MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_categories: 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 AI List My Business. Nothing to install.
get_categories 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_categories 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_categories. 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_categories is provided by the AI List My Business MCP server (mutamiri-sudo/ailistmybusiness). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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