Get the list of Instagram Stories from your Metricool account.
AI agents call get_instagram_stories to retrieve information from Mcp Metricool without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves historical data about Instagram Stories from the user's Metricool account. It performs no writes, deletions, executions, or financial transactions. The data returned is pre-existing social media analytics/content metadata. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an attacker gains visibility into the user's past Stories but cannot modify, delete, or take external actions.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Get the list of Instagram Stories' - a retrieval operation with no modification or side effects. The verb 'Get' and phrase 'list of' indicate a query-only action.
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Get the list of Instagram Stories from your Metricool account. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Metricool MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Metricool MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_instagram_stories: 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 Metricool. Nothing to install.
get_instagram_stories 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_instagram_stories 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_instagram_stories. 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_instagram_stories is provided by the Mcp Metricool MCP server (namdzmaso02/mcp-metricool). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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