health_check

What health_check does on Mcp Nettools

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

Why health_check is rated Low

Health checks are diagnostic queries that report on the status of a service or container. This is a read-only operation with no side effects—it gathers and returns health status data. The low severity reflects minimal blast radius: an AI agent cannot cause harm by querying a health endpoint, as it only retrieves information and does not execute commands, modify data, or affect system operations.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'health_check' and description 'Health check endpoint for container monitoring' indicate a query operation that retrieves status information without modifying any state or triggering external operations.

The rule that runs health_check safely

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

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

Questions about health_check