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What hello does on Terminal Guardian
AI agents call hello as a supporting operation in Terminal Guardian workflows.
Why hello is rated Low
The name and description suggest a trivial greeting or test/ping endpoint with no apparent side effects. However, on a terminal-access server, even benign-looking tools could have hidden effects; the description provides no detail. Classifying as Other with low confidence due to the uninformative description.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'hello' and description is 'Say hello' — entirely uninformative about any real action.
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The rule that runs hello safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Terminal Guardian, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For hello, this is the rule to start with:
hello gets a rate cap, and everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Terminal Guardian, apply this rule, and every hello call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about hello
Say hello. It is categorised as a Other tool in the Terminal Guardian MCP Server, which means it performs auxiliary operations.
Register the Terminal Guardian MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for hello: 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 Terminal Guardian. Nothing to install.
hello is a Other tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the hello 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 hello. 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.
hello is provided by the Terminal Guardian MCP server (7majesty-m/terminal-guardian-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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