Extract transcript from a YouTube video. Returns timestamped text. No tab required.
AI agents call youtube_transcript to retrieve information from Camofox without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
The tool retrieves and returns publicly available transcript data from YouTube videos. There are no side effects, data modifications, deletions, or command executions. It is a straightforward read operation that queries and returns information. The 'No tab required' note indicates it fetches data without browser state modification.
From the tool's definition Tool name: 'youtube_transcript'. Description states it 'Extract[s] transcript from a YouTube video. Returns timestamped text.' This is purely data retrieval with no modification, deletion, or execution of code.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access youtube_transcript gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Camofox, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for youtube_transcript:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"youtube_transcript": {}
}
}youtube_transcript is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Extract transcript from a YouTube video. Returns timestamped text. No tab required. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Camofox MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Camofox MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for youtube_transcript: 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 Camofox. Nothing to install.
youtube_transcript 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_transcript 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_transcript. 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_transcript is provided by the Camofox MCP server (redf0x1/camofox-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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