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Critical-risk tools in Cowork Bench

30 of the 433 tools in Cowork Bench are classified as critical risk. This page profiles those tools specifically, with recommended policy actions and the attack patterns that target them.

Every operation listed below is an action PolicyLayer recommends controlling at the transport layer. Open any tool to see the full profile, risk score, and YAML policy snippet.

Tools at critical risk

Attacks that target this class

Critical-risk tools in any server share these documented attack patterns. Each links to the full case and the defensive policy.

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