Retrieves all videos contained in a specific YouTube playlist. Returns detailed information about each video including title, description, channel information, and statistics. Use this when you need to analyze the content of a playlist.
AI agents call getPlaylistVideos 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 performs a read-only retrieval operation. It queries playlist data and returns existing information (video titles, descriptions, channel details, statistics) without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. This is a standard data retrieval function with no side effects or potential for harm beyond normal API access patterns.
From the tool's definition Retrieves all videos contained in a specific YouTube playlist. Returns detailed information about each video including title, description, channel information, and statistics.
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Retrieves all videos contained in a specific YouTube playlist. Returns detailed information about each video including title, description, channel information, and statistics. Use this when you need to analyze the content of a 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 getPlaylistVideos: 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.
getPlaylistVideos 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 getPlaylistVideos 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 getPlaylistVideos. 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.
getPlaylistVideos 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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