Discover attack chains from existing findings. Analyzes all findings for an engagement and identifies how they can be chained together to achieve full system compromise.
AI agents call discover_attack_chains to retrieve information from Pentest Ai without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
The tool reads and analyzes existing findings data to identify attack chain relationships — it does not execute attacks, modify data, or trigger external operations. It is an analytical/query operation over already-collected pentest findings. However, severity is medium because the output (a mapped attack chain toward full system compromise) is highly sensitive intelligence that could be misused.
From the tool's definition 'Discover attack chains from existing findings' and 'Analyzes all findings for an engagement and identifies how they can be chained together'
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access discover_attack_chains gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Pentest Ai, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for discover_attack_chains:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"discover_attack_chains": {}
}
}discover_attack_chains is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Discover attack chains from existing findings. Analyzes all findings for an engagement and identifies how they can be chained together to achieve full system compromise. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Pentest Ai MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Pentest Ai MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for discover_attack_chains: 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 Pentest Ai. Nothing to install.
discover_attack_chains 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 discover_attack_chains 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 discover_attack_chains. 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.
discover_attack_chains is provided by the Pentest Ai MCP server (0xsteph/pentest-ai). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Deterministic rules across all 51 Pentest Ai tools. Per-identity grants. Full audit log. Live in minutes. Nothing to install.
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