ToolTrust
C25/100
Smithery

googlephotos

mcpsmithery

@Smithery

Google Photos is a cloud-based photo storage and organization service offering automatic backups, AI-assisted search, and shared albums for personal and collaborative media management

By Smithery | 29 findings | Scanned 4/19/2026 | tooltrust-scanner/v0.3.8

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Risk Summary

Needs Approval

Dep Visibility plus Excessive Permissions raises enough risk that this tool should not be auto-trusted.

Potential impact: This finding indicates the tool should be reviewed before it is trusted.

Recommended action: Keep this tool behind manual approval and avoid unattended runs until the risky capabilities are narrowed or removed.

Suggested policy: keep this tool behind manual approval, do not allow unattended runs, and re-scan after narrowing risky permissions.

Security Findings (29)

  • HighAS-002

    ⚠️Excessive Permissions ×5

    tool declares network permission

    GOOGLEPHOTOS_CREATE_ALBUMGOOGLEPHOTOS_GET_MEDIA_ITEM_DOWNLOADGOOGLEPHOTOS_SEARCH_MEDIA_ITEMS

    tool declares exec permission

    GOOGLEPHOTOS_UPDATE_MEDIA_ITEMGOOGLEPHOTOS_UPLOAD_MEDIA

    Fix: Tool requests broad permissions (exec/fs/network). Validate input parameters using Enums where possible, and restrict file system operations to explicit allowed directories.

  • MediumAS-002

    ⚠️Excessive Permissions ×6

    tool declares fs permission

    GOOGLEPHOTOS_BATCH_CREATE_MEDIA_ITEMSGOOGLEPHOTOS_CREATE_ALBUMGOOGLEPHOTOS_GET_MEDIA_ITEM_DOWNLOADGOOGLEPHOTOS_UPDATE_ALBUMGOOGLEPHOTOS_UPDATE_MEDIA_ITEMGOOGLEPHOTOS_UPLOAD_MEDIA

    Fix: Tool requests broad permissions (exec/fs/network). Validate input parameters using Enums where possible, and restrict file system operations to explicit allowed directories.

  • LowAS-011

    ℹ️Missing Rate-Limit / Timeout ×5

    tool performs network or execution operations but declares no rate-limit, timeout, or retry configuration

    GOOGLEPHOTOS_CREATE_ALBUMGOOGLEPHOTOS_GET_MEDIA_ITEM_DOWNLOADGOOGLEPHOTOS_SEARCH_MEDIA_ITEMSGOOGLEPHOTOS_UPDATE_MEDIA_ITEMGOOGLEPHOTOS_UPLOAD_MEDIA

    Fix: Declare explicit rate-limit, timeout, and retry configuration for all network and execution tools. Implement exponential back-off and surface resource state to the calling agent.

  • InfoAS-014

    ℹ️Dependency Inventory Unavailable ×13

    Tool did not expose metadata.dependencies or repo_url, so supply-chain coverage is limited.

    GOOGLEPHOTOS_ADD_ENRICHMENTGOOGLEPHOTOS_BATCH_ADD_MEDIA_ITEMSGOOGLEPHOTOS_BATCH_CREATE_MEDIA_ITEMSGOOGLEPHOTOS_BATCH_GET_MEDIA_ITEMSGOOGLEPHOTOS_CREATE_ALBUMGOOGLEPHOTOS_GET_ALBUMGOOGLEPHOTOS_GET_MEDIA_ITEM_DOWNLOADGOOGLEPHOTOS_LIST_ALBUMSGOOGLEPHOTOS_LIST_MEDIA_ITEMSGOOGLEPHOTOS_SEARCH_MEDIA_ITEMSGOOGLEPHOTOS_UPDATE_ALBUMGOOGLEPHOTOS_UPDATE_MEDIA_ITEMGOOGLEPHOTOS_UPLOAD_MEDIA

    Fix: Review and remediate the identified issue.

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