List videos in a YouTube playlist.
AI agents call youtube_playlist to retrieve information from Youtube Research without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and retrieves publicly available playlist metadata and video listings from YouTube. It has no side effects: it does not create, modify, delete, or execute any operations. The action is purely informational and read-only, consistent with other sibling tools like youtube_search, youtube_video_info, and youtube_transcript.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'List videos in a YouTube playlist' — a retrieval operation with no modification, deletion, or code execution.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List videos in a YouTube playlist. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Youtube Research MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Youtube Research MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for youtube_playlist: 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 Research. Nothing to install.
youtube_playlist 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_playlist 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_playlist. 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_playlist is provided by the Youtube Research MCP server (plaguedoctor39/youtube-research). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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