AI agents call get_config 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.
This tool retrieves configuration data without modifying, executing, or deleting anything. The masking of secrets further suggests this is a safe introspection endpoint designed for visibility only. Even in a pentest context, reading configuration is a passive information-gathering activity with minimal blast radius.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'get_config' and description states 'Get current pentest-ai configuration (secrets masked).' The verb 'Get' and action of retrieving configuration indicates a read-only query operation with no side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_config 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 get_config:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_config": {}
}
}get_config is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get current pentest-ai configuration (secrets masked). 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 get_config: 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.
get_config 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 get_config 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 get_config. 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.
get_config 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.
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