Get currently trending/popular YouTube videos by region and category.
AI agents call get_trending_videos to retrieve information from YouTube MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and queries public trending video data from YouTube. It performs no mutations, deletions, executions, or financial operations. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could potentially retrieve large volumes of trending data or make excessive requests, but cannot modify, delete, or cause irreversible harm through this read-only operation.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_trending_videos' and description 'Get currently trending/popular YouTube videos by region and category' indicate data retrieval with no side effects. Returns publicly available trending video metadata.
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Get currently trending/popular YouTube videos by region and category. It is categorised as a Read tool in the YouTube MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the YouTube MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_trending_videos: 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 YouTube MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_trending_videos 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_trending_videos 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_trending_videos. 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_trending_videos is provided by the YouTube MCP Server MCP server (wynandw87/claude-code-youtube-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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