AI agents call atv_get_apps to retrieve information from AndroidTVMCP 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 data about installed applications on an Android TV device. It performs no modifications, deletions, executions, or financial transactions. The operation is informational only, making it a Read category risk with low severity since listing apps poses minimal security concern even if misused by an AI agent.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'atv_get_apps' and description 'Get list of available applications on Android TV' indicate a retrieval operation with no side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access atv_get_apps gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and AndroidTVMCP, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for atv_get_apps:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"atv_get_apps": {}
}
}atv_get_apps is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get list of available applications on Android TV. It is categorised as a Read tool in the AndroidTVMCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the AndroidTV MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for atv_get_apps: 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 AndroidTVMCP. Nothing to install.
atv_get_apps 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 atv_get_apps 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 atv_get_apps. 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.
atv_get_apps is provided by the AndroidTV MCP server (pigeek/androidtvmcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from AndroidTVMCP, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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