AI agents call get_youtube_video_info to retrieve information from Crawl-MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool fetches publicly available YouTube video information (metadata such as title, description, duration, thumbnail, etc.). It performs no writes, deletions, code execution, or financial operations. The empty description reduces confidence slightly, but the clear naming pattern and server context strongly indicate a read-only information retrieval function.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_youtube_video_info' indicates retrieval of metadata/information about YouTube videos. Description is empty, but the name and context of sibling tools (batch_extract_youtube_transcripts, extract_youtube_comments) confirm this is a data retrieval…
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_youtube_video_info gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Crawl-MCP, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_youtube_video_info:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_youtube_video_info": {}
}
}get_youtube_video_info is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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get_youtube_video_info. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Crawl-MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Crawl- MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_youtube_video_info: 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 Crawl-MCP. Nothing to install.
get_youtube_video_info 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_youtube_video_info 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_youtube_video_info. 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_youtube_video_info is provided by the Crawl- MCP server (walksoda/crawl-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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19 Crawl-MCP tools catalogued and risk-classified — across an index of 42,500+ MCP servers.