deps_map

What deps_map does on Claude Engram

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

Why deps_map is rated Low

The tool appears to analyze and return information about a file's dependencies or structure. This is a read-only operation with no side effects—it queries data rather than creating, modifying, deleting, or executing code. The low severity reflects minimal blast radius if misused by an agent, as the worst outcome would be exposure of non-sensitive file structure metadata.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'deps_map' and description 'Map a file' indicate a querying/analysis operation that retrieves dependency or structural information about a file without modifying it.

The rule that runs deps_map safely

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

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

Questions about deps_map