Gets metadata about a document including its name, owner, sharing status, and modification history.
AI agents call getDocumentInfo to retrieve information from Google Docs, Drive & Sheets MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool only queries and returns document metadata without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a straightforward read operation that poses minimal security risk even if misused by an AI agent, as it cannot alter data or trigger external actions.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'getDocumentInfo' and description explicitly states it 'Gets metadata about a document including its name, owner, sharing status, and modification history' — purely retrieval operations with no side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Gets metadata about a document including its name, owner, sharing status, and modification history. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Google Docs, Drive & Sheets MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Google Docs, Drive & Sheets MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for getDocumentInfo: 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 Docs, Drive & Sheets MCP Server. Nothing to install.
getDocumentInfo 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 getDocumentInfo 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 getDocumentInfo. 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.
getDocumentInfo is provided by the Google Docs, Drive & Sheets MCP Server MCP server (rulords/google-docs-mcp-personal). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
getDocumentInfo is one line of Google Docs, Drive & Sheets MCP Server's registry record.
The record carries the whole server: verified identity, auth posture, risk grade, every tool classified, recommended policy — re-checked continuously.
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