Get recently modified or created contacts
AI agents call get_recent_contacts to retrieve information from macOS MCP Servers 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 without side effects. It performs a read-only query of recent contacts from the Contacts application. While contacts may contain personal information, the tool itself performs no destructive, financial, or executable operations. The severity is low because data retrieval alone poses minimal direct risk compared to write, destructive, or execute operations.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_recent_contacts' and description 'Get recently modified or created contacts' indicate a query operation that retrieves contact data without modification or deletion.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get recently modified or created contacts. It is categorised as a Read tool in the macOS MCP Servers MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the macOS MCP Servers MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_recent_contacts: 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 macOS MCP Servers. Nothing to install.
get_recent_contacts 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_recent_contacts 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_recent_contacts. 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_recent_contacts is provided by the macOS MCP Servers MCP server (tdisawas0github/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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