Check super admin account recovery settings. Weak recovery settings can be exploited to take over admin accounts.
AI agents call check_super_admin_recovery 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 examines configuration settings for super admin account recovery mechanisms. It performs an informational audit check without modifying any settings, executing commands, or deleting data. While the underlying settings it queries are security-sensitive, the tool itself only reads and reports on their state.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'check_super_admin_recovery' and description states it 'Check[s] super admin account recovery settings.' The verb 'check' and phrasing 'assess[es]' indicate read-only query operations with no modification or execution of external systems.
Risk signalsAdmin/system-level operation
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Check super admin account recovery settings. Weak recovery settings can be exploited to take over admin accounts. 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_super_admin_recovery: 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_super_admin_recovery 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_super_admin_recovery 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_super_admin_recovery. 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_super_admin_recovery 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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