AI agents call listPermissions to retrieve information from Google Drive MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves information about who has access to a file (read-only operation). There are no side effects, data modifications, deletions, or external operations triggered. While permission data could be sensitive, the operation itself is a straightforward informational query with minimal blast radius if misused by an AI agent.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'listPermissions' and description 'List sharing permissions for a file' indicate a query operation that retrieves metadata about existing permissions without modifying them.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access listPermissions gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Google Drive MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for listPermissions:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"listPermissions": {}
}
}listPermissions is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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List sharing permissions for a file. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Google Drive MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Google Drive MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for listPermissions: 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 Google Drive MCP Server. Nothing to install.
listPermissions 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 listPermissions 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 listPermissions. 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.
listPermissions is provided by the Google Drive MCP Server MCP server (piotr-agier/google-drive-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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107 Google Drive MCP Server tools catalogued and risk-classified — across an index of 42,500+ MCP servers.