Fetch recent Shorts from your subscribed YouTube channels. Pulls your subscriptions, then grabs the latest Shorts from each.
AI agents call get_subscription_shorts 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 queries and retrieves video metadata from the user's subscribed YouTube channels. It performs read-only operations (fetching subscriptions and their associated Shorts content) without modifying, deleting, or executing any code. The action depends on authentication state (browser cookies) but the operation itself is a passive data fetch with no reversible or irreversible modifications.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'Fetch[es]' and 'grabs' recent Shorts from subscribed channels—purely data retrieval operations with no side effects.
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Fetch recent Shorts from your subscribed YouTube channels. Pulls your subscriptions, then grabs the latest Shorts from each. 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_subscription_shorts: 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_subscription_shorts 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_subscription_shorts 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_subscription_shorts. 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_subscription_shorts 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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