help

What help does on Claude C2

AI agents call help to retrieve information from Claude C2 without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why help is rated Low

The help tool is a read-only informational query that returns documentation and command reference material. It has no side effects, cannot modify data, and poses minimal security risk even if accessed by an unauthorized party. The information disclosed (available commands, usage) is documentation that would typically be available to any legitimate user of the system.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'help' and description 'Get help about Claude C2 - shows available commands, usage, and documentation' indicate this retrieves and displays informational content about the system without modifying state or executing operations.

The rule that runs help safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Claude C2, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For help, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "help": {}
  }
}

Questions about help