Retrieves detailed information about a specific YouTube playlist. Returns comprehensive metadata including title, description, channel information, and video count. Use this when you need complete information about a particular playlist.
AI agents call getPlaylistDetails to retrieve information from Yt without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and retrieves publicly available playlist metadata without any side effects, modifications, or state changes. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an attacker could gather information about playlists but cannot create, modify, delete, execute code, or access sensitive data beyond what is already public. It aligns with the 'Read' category as a simple data retrieval operation.
From the tool's definition Tool description explicitly states it 'Retrieves detailed information' about a YouTube playlist and returns 'metadata including title, description, channel information, and video count.' The verb 'Retrieves' and absence of any modification, deletion, or…
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Retrieves detailed information about a specific YouTube playlist. Returns comprehensive metadata including title, description, channel information, and video count. Use this when you need complete information about a particular playlist. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Yt MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Yt MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for getPlaylistDetails: 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 Yt. Nothing to install.
getPlaylistDetails 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 getPlaylistDetails 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 getPlaylistDetails. 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.
getPlaylistDetails is provided by the Yt MCP server (yt-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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