Lists spreadsheets in your Drive, optionally filtered by name or content.
AI agents call listSpreadsheets 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 retrieves and queries metadata about spreadsheets stored in Google Drive. It performs a search/list operation with optional filters, which is purely informational with no capacity to modify, delete, or execute operations. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could enumerate files but cannot alter them.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'listSpreadsheets' and description 'Lists spreadsheets in your Drive, optionally filtered by name or content' indicate data retrieval with no modification or side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Lists spreadsheets in your Drive, optionally filtered by name or content. 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 listSpreadsheets: 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.
listSpreadsheets 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 listSpreadsheets 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 listSpreadsheets. 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.
listSpreadsheets 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.
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