Lists contacts from your Outlook address book. Optionally filter by name or email.
AI agents call list-contacts to retrieve information from Outlook Assistant 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 from Outlook without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is purely a data query with optional filtering. The blast radius of misuse is low—an agent could expose contact names and emails, but cannot modify data or trigger external actions. This clearly fits the Read category.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'list-contacts' and description states it 'Lists contacts from your Outlook address book.' The verb 'lists' and the read-only nature of querying address book data without modification indicates a retrieval operation with no side effects.
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Lists contacts from your Outlook address book. Optionally filter by name or email. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Outlook Assistant MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Outlook Assistant MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list-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 Outlook Assistant. Nothing to install.
list-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 list-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 list-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.
list-contacts is provided by the Outlook Assistant MCP server (titanzero/outlook-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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