Search YouTube for videos. Uses Chrome cookies for personalized results.
AI agents call search_youtube 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 search operation on YouTube, returning video results. While it uses authentication cookies to personalize results, it does not execute code, modify data, delete content, or commit financial transactions. It is a straightforward information retrieval function comparable to other sibling tools like 'get_video_info' and 'get_youtube_feed', all of which are Read category tools.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'search_youtube' and description 'Search YouTube for videos' indicate a query operation. The phrase 'Uses Chrome cookies for personalized results' confirms it retrieves data without modification or execution of arbitrary operations.
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Search YouTube for videos. Uses Chrome cookies for personalized results. 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 search_youtube: 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.
search_youtube 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 search_youtube 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 search_youtube. 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.
search_youtube 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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