Builds a deterministic report of stale Tableau Cloud content (workbooks and published datasources) by querying the Admin Insights
AI agents call get-stale-content-report to retrieve information from Tableau MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and retrieves administrative insights about content staleness in Tableau Cloud. It is purely informational—building a report by querying existing data without creating side effects, modifying data, executing commands, or deleting anything. The action is read-only analysis of metadata.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get-stale-content-report' and description 'Builds a deterministic report of stale Tableau Cloud content' and 'by querying the Admin Insights' indicate retrieval and reporting of existing data with no modification, deletion, or execution of code.
Risk signalsAdmin/system-level operation
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Builds a deterministic report of stale Tableau Cloud content (workbooks and published datasources) by querying the Admin Insights. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Tableau MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Tableau MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get-stale-content-report: 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 Tableau MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get-stale-content-report 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-stale-content-report 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-stale-content-report. 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-stale-content-report is provided by the Tableau MCP Server MCP server (tableau/tableau-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.