Per-user conversation and message counts, channels, and last activity.
AI agents call get_user_activity to retrieve information from Copilot Insights MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs telemetry queries with no side effects. It retrieves aggregated usage statistics and activity metadata about users within Copilot Studio. No data creation, modification, deletion, code execution, or financial operations are possible. Even if misused by an AI agent, the blast radius is confined to unauthorized data access of internal analytics, not system compromise or irreversible changes.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it retrieves 'per-user conversation and message counts, channels, and last activity' — purely query/retrieval operations with no modification capability.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Per-user conversation and message counts, channels, and last activity. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Copilot Insights MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Copilot Insights MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_user_activity: 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 Copilot Insights MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_user_activity 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_user_activity 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_user_activity. 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_user_activity is provided by the Copilot Insights MCP Server MCP server (syokiel/copilot-insights). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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