Check external sharing settings and restrictions
AI agents call check_external_sharing to retrieve information from Google Workspace Compliance Audit Tool without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and assesses the current state of external sharing policies in Google Workspace. It performs no modifications, executions, or destructive operations. The verb 'check' combined with 'settings' and 'restrictions' clearly indicates a read-only audit assessment. As part of a compliance audit tool, it gathers information to evaluate policy compliance without side effects.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'check_external_sharing' and description 'Check external sharing settings and restrictions' indicate a query/inspection operation that retrieves configuration data without modifying or executing actions.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Check external sharing settings and restrictions. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Google Workspace Compliance Audit Tool MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Google Workspace Compliance Audit Tool MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for check_external_sharing: 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 Workspace Compliance Audit Tool. Nothing to install.
check_external_sharing 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 check_external_sharing 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 check_external_sharing. 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.
check_external_sharing is provided by the Google Workspace Compliance Audit Tool MCP server (sean-m-sweeney/googleworkspaceaudit). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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