Get detailed listening statistics for a specific artist from your listening history. Returns information including: - Total play count across all their tracks - Total listening time - First and last time you played any of their tracks - Your top tracks by this artist Example queries: -
AI agents call get_artist_stats to retrieve information from Your Spotify MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool purely retrieves and queries existing listening history data without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing operations. It has no side effects and presents minimal risk if misused by an AI agent—the worst outcome would be gathering personal listening preferences, which is already available to authorized users. Low blast radius and low privilege impact.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves 'detailed listening statistics' including 'total play count', 'total listening time', 'first and last time', and 'top tracks' from listening history.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get detailed listening statistics for a specific artist from your listening history. Returns information including: - Total play count across all their tracks - Total listening time - First and last time you played any of their tracks - Your top tracks by this artist Example queries: -. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Your Spotify MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Your Spotify MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_artist_stats: 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 Your Spotify MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_artist_stats 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_artist_stats 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_artist_stats. 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_artist_stats is provided by the Your Spotify MCP Server MCP server (pentafive/your-spotify-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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