Get the current playback status: title, position, duration, and pause state.
AI agents call get_status to retrieve information from Social Video 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 query of the media player's current state. It has no side effects, makes no modifications to data, and does not execute operations or move resources. It is purely informational retrieval about playback status, making it a Read category tool with low severity—an AI agent misusing this has minimal impact.
From the tool's definition The tool name 'get_status' and description indicate it retrieves current playback state information (title, position, duration, pause state) without modifying any data or triggering external actions.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get the current playback status: title, position, duration, and pause state. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Social Video MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Social Video MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_status: 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 Social Video. Nothing to install.
get_status 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_status 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_status. 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_status is provided by the Social Video MCP server (ronantakizawa/social-video-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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