List all variants of a product. Each variant represents a specific purchasable SKU with its own price, inventory, and options.
AI agents call list_variants to retrieve information from Kockatoos Shopify 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 product variant data without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing operations. It merely retrieves existing information about product SKUs, pricing, inventory metadata, and options.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'list_variants' and description 'List all variants of a product' indicate a retrieval operation with no side effects. The verb 'list' is explicitly a Read operation.
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List all variants of a product. Each variant represents a specific purchasable SKU with its own price, inventory, and options. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Kockatoos Shopify MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Kockatoos Shopify MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_variants: 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 Kockatoos Shopify MCP Server. Nothing to install.
list_variants 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_variants 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_variants. 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_variants is provided by the Kockatoos Shopify MCP Server MCP server (untitled-developers/shopify-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
list_variants is one line of Kockatoos Shopify MCP Server's registry record.
The record carries the whole server: verified identity, auth posture, risk grade, every tool classified, recommended policy — re-checked continuously.
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