Get current clipboard content from Android device
AI agents call get_android_clipboard to retrieve information from MCP Prompts Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves clipboard data from an Android device without side effects. It performs a query operation that does not create, modify, delete, or execute anything. While clipboard content could theoretically be sensitive, the tool itself has no blast radius—it only reads existing state.
From the tool's definition Tool name and description indicate retrieval only: 'Get current clipboard content' with no modification, deletion, or execution capability. Action is read-only access to existing data.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_android_clipboard gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and MCP Prompts Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_android_clipboard:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_android_clipboard": {}
}
}get_android_clipboard is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get current clipboard content from Android device. It is categorised as a Read tool in the MCP Prompts Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the MCP Prompts Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_android_clipboard: 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 MCP Prompts Server. Nothing to install.
get_android_clipboard 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_android_clipboard 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_android_clipboard. 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_android_clipboard is provided by the MCP Prompts Server MCP server (sparesparrow/mcp-prompts). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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