AI agents use play_video to create or update resources in VideoDB Director — usually the action step of a workflow, after the agent has gathered context. Every call changes real data in your VideoDB Director environment.
An AI agent can call play_video faster than any human can review — one bad instruction and it creates or modifies resources in VideoDB Director by the hundred, each call as confident as the last.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access play_video gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and VideoDB Director, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for play_video:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"play_video": {
"limits": [
{
"counter": "play_video_rate",
"window": "minute",
"max": 30,
"scope": "grant"
}
]
}
}
}play_video stays usable, but capped — an agent stuck in a loop can't make hundreds of changes a minute. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
Free to start. No card required.
Play the video of the given stream link. It is categorised as a Write tool in the VideoDB Director MCP Server, which means it can create or modify data. Consider rate limits to prevent runaway writes.
Register the VideoDB Director MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for play_video: 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 VideoDB Director. Nothing to install.
play_video is a Write tool with medium risk. Write tools should be rate-limited to prevent accidental bulk modifications.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the play_video 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 play_video. 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.
play_video is provided by the VideoDB Director MCP server (video-db/agent-toolkit). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Deterministic rules across all 4 VideoDB Director tools. Per-identity grants. Full audit log. Live in minutes. Nothing to install.
Free to start. No card required.
4 VideoDB Director tools catalogued and risk-classified — across an index of 42,500+ MCP servers.