Get contact information for a LinkedIn profile.
AI agents call get_profile_contact_info to retrieve information from LinkedIn Intelligence 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 contact information from LinkedIn profiles without modifying, deleting, or executing external operations. It falls squarely into the Read category. Severity is medium because unauthorized access to contact information could enable harassment, phishing, or unwanted solicitation, but the tool itself does not directly move money, delete data, or execute arbitrary code.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'get_profile_contact_info' and description states 'Get contact information for a LinkedIn profile' — purely retrieves/queries data with no modification or side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_profile_contact_info gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and LinkedIn Intelligence MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_profile_contact_info:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_profile_contact_info": {}
}
}get_profile_contact_info is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get contact information for a LinkedIn profile. It is categorised as a Read tool in the LinkedIn Intelligence MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the LinkedIn Intelligence MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_profile_contact_info: 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 LinkedIn Intelligence MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_profile_contact_info 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 get_profile_contact_info 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 get_profile_contact_info. 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.
get_profile_contact_info is provided by the LinkedIn Intelligence MCP Server MCP server (southleft/linkedin-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Deterministic rules across all 87 LinkedIn Intelligence MCP Server tools. Per-identity grants. Full audit log. Live in minutes. Nothing to install.
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87 LinkedIn Intelligence MCP Server tools catalogued and risk-classified — across an index of 42,500+ MCP servers.