Get comprehensive Last.fm listening statistics and analytics - REQUIRES AUTHENTICATION. Shows detailed insights about music habits.
AI agents call get_listening_stats to retrieve information from Lastfm without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and displays user listening statistics and analytics from Last.fm. It performs no side effects—no data is created, modified, deleted, or irreversibly changed. While it requires authentication and accesses personal music history data, the operation is purely informational.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_listening_stats' and description 'Get comprehensive Last.fm listening statistics and analytics' indicate data retrieval only. Verbs 'Get' and 'Shows' confirm read-only operation with no modification, deletion, or execution of external commands.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_listening_stats gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Lastfm, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_listening_stats:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_listening_stats": {}
}
}get_listening_stats is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get comprehensive Last.fm listening statistics and analytics - REQUIRES AUTHENTICATION. Shows detailed insights about music habits. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Lastfm MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Lastfm MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_listening_stats: 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 Lastfm. Nothing to install.
get_listening_stats 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 get_listening_stats 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 get_listening_stats. 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.
get_listening_stats is provided by the Lastfm MCP server (rianvdm/lastfm-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Deterministic rules across all 21 Lastfm tools. Per-identity grants. Full audit log. Live in minutes. Nothing to install.
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