Get privacy permission status for an app
AI agents call xcode_get_privacy_permission to retrieve information from MCP Appium 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 operation to query the status of privacy permissions on an iOS app. It retrieves information without side effects, no data is modified, and no external operations are triggered. This is a straightforward Read category tool with low severity since it only exposes permission status information, which has minimal blast radius if misused in an automated context.
From the tool's definition The tool name 'xcode_get_privacy_permission' and description 'Get privacy permission status for an app' indicate a query operation that retrieves the current status of privacy permissions without modifying or executing any actions.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access xcode_get_privacy_permission gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and MCP Appium Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for xcode_get_privacy_permission:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"xcode_get_privacy_permission": {}
}
}xcode_get_privacy_permission is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get privacy permission status for an app. It is categorised as a Read tool in the MCP Appium Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the MCP Appium Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for xcode_get_privacy_permission: 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 MCP Appium Server. Nothing to install.
xcode_get_privacy_permission 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 xcode_get_privacy_permission 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 xcode_get_privacy_permission. 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.
xcode_get_privacy_permission is provided by the MCP Appium Server MCP server (rahulec08/appium-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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