Get detailed information about a specific place
AI agents call place-details to retrieve information from Google Services 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 a place (likely geographic/location details) without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing operations. It is a read-only query operation, analogous to a GET request in REST APIs. The low severity reflects minimal risk from misuse—an AI agent retrieving place details cannot cause harm through this tool alone.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'place-details' and description 'Get detailed information about a specific place' indicate retrieval of existing place data with no modification or side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get detailed information about a specific place. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Google Services MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Google Services MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for place-details: 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 Services MCP Server. Nothing to install.
place-details 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 place-details 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 place-details. 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.
place-details is provided by the Google Services MCP Server MCP server (ricleedo/google-service-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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