Get views by country.
AI agents call youtube_analytics_geography to retrieve information from YouTube 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 read-only query of YouTube analytics data, specifically geographic breakdown of views. It has no side effects, does not modify any data, and does not execute external operations. It falls squarely within the Read category as it retrieves and queries existing analytics information.
From the tool's definition Tool name and description indicate data retrieval only: 'Get views by country' is a query operation that retrieves analytics metrics without modifying or deleting data.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get views by country. It is categorised as a Read tool in the YouTube MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the YouTube MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for youtube_analytics_geography: 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 YouTube MCP Server. Nothing to install.
youtube_analytics_geography 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 youtube_analytics_geography 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 youtube_analytics_geography. 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.
youtube_analytics_geography is provided by the YouTube MCP Server MCP server (pauling-ai/youtube-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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