Read the current governed room state, including selected agents, source evidence, budget, checkpoints, and decision.
AI agents call team_manager_state to retrieve information from Team Manager MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This is a retrieval-only operation. It queries and returns data about the current state of a governed room without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any actions. The 'Read' category is appropriate, and severity is low because viewing state information poses minimal risk even if misused by an AI agent.
From the tool's definition Tool description explicitly states 'Read the current governed room state' — a query operation with no side effects. The tool retrieves state information (agents, evidence, budget, checkpoints, decision) without modifying or executing anything.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Read the current governed room state, including selected agents, source evidence, budget, checkpoints, and decision. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Team Manager MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Team Manager MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for team_manager_state: 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 Team Manager MCP. Nothing to install.
team_manager_state 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 team_manager_state 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 team_manager_state. 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.
team_manager_state is provided by the Team Manager MCP server (0xadvait/team-manager-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
team_manager_state is one line of Team Manager's registry record.
The record carries the whole server: verified identity, auth posture, risk grade, every tool classified, recommended policy — re-checked continuously.
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