Play Shorts as a continuous auto-advancing playlist. Automatically fetches more as you watch. Fetch from a specific channel or from your subscribed channels.
AI agents invoke play_shorts to trigger actions in Social Video. What it does depends on the arguments the agent supplies, and its effects often reach beyond the immediate call — builds kicked off, notifications sent, workflows started.
This tool launches and controls an external mpv player process to play video content. It performs an ongoing external operation (media playback with auto-advancing) that goes beyond simply reading data. It also fetches additional content dynamically as playback continues. This qualifies as Execute due to triggering external application behavior.
From the tool's definition 'Play Shorts as a continuous auto-advancing playlist' — triggers external media playback via native mpv player window, fetches content continuously, and controls an external application
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Play Shorts as a continuous auto-advancing playlist. Automatically fetches more as you watch. Fetch from a specific channel or from your subscribed channels. It is categorised as a Execute tool in the Social Video MCP Server, which means it can trigger actions or run processes. Use rate limits and argument validation.
Register the Social Video MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for play_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.
play_shorts is a Execute tool with high risk. Execute tools should be rate-limited and have argument validation enabled.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the play_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 play_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.
play_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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