Sends a text DM to an Instagram user. Args: - ig_account_id (string): Instagram account ID (sender) - recipient_id (string): Instagram-scoped user ID of the recipient - message (string): Text message to send Note: Only works within the 24-hour human agent messaging window or 7-day standard messag...
AI agents use meta_send_instagram_message to create or update resources in Meta MCP Server — usually the action step of a workflow, after the agent has gathered context. Every call changes real data in your Meta MCP Server environment.
This tool sends (creates) a direct message on Instagram, which is a Write operation—it modifies state by adding a new message to a conversation. The severity is medium because misuse could enable spam, harassment, or impersonation at scale, but the tool has inherent mitigations (24-hour/7-day messaging windows and prior-message requirement limit blast radius).
From the tool's definition Tool 'Sends a text DM to an Instagram user' with args ig_account_id, recipient_id, and message text. Action creates/sends a message (reversible via deletion). Returns Message ID indicating successful message creation.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access meta_send_instagram_message gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Meta MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for meta_send_instagram_message:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"meta_send_instagram_message": {
"limits": [
{
"counter": "meta_send_instagram_message_rate",
"window": "minute",
"max": 30,
"scope": "grant"
}
]
}
}
}meta_send_instagram_message stays usable, but capped — an agent stuck in a loop can't make hundreds of changes a minute. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Sends a text DM to an Instagram user. Args: - ig_account_id (string): Instagram account ID (sender) - recipient_id (string): Instagram-scoped user ID of the recipient - message (string): Text message to send Note: Only works within the 24-hour human agent messaging window or 7-day standard messaging window. The recipient must have messaged the account first. Returns: Message ID. It is categorised as a Write tool in the Meta MCP Server MCP Server, which means it can create or modify data. Consider rate limits to prevent runaway writes.
Register the Meta MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for meta_send_instagram_message: 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 Meta MCP Server. Nothing to install.
meta_send_instagram_message is a Write tool with medium risk. Write tools should be rate-limited to prevent accidental bulk modifications.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the meta_send_instagram_message 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 meta_send_instagram_message. 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.
meta_send_instagram_message is provided by the Meta MCP Server MCP server (oliverames/meta-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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