AI agents call list-drafts to retrieve information from Enhanced Gmail 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 returns draft email data without creating, modifying, or deleting anything. It is a straightforward read operation that retrieves information from the user's Gmail drafts folder. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an AI agent using this tool could only view draft emails, not alter or send them.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'list-drafts' and description 'Lists all draft emails' indicate a retrieval operation with no modifications or side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access list-drafts gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Enhanced Gmail MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for list-drafts:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"list-drafts": {}
}
}list-drafts is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Lists all draft emails. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Enhanced Gmail MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Enhanced Gmail MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list-drafts: 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 Enhanced Gmail MCP Server. Nothing to install.
list-drafts 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 list-drafts 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 list-drafts. 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.
list-drafts is provided by the Enhanced Gmail MCP Server MCP server (theposch/gmail-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Enhanced Gmail MCP Server, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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