get_available_sources

What get_available_sources does on Obsidian Elite RAG MCP Server

AI agents call get_available_sources to retrieve information from Obsidian Elite RAG MCP Server without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why get_available_sources is rated Low

The tool appears to enumerate or retrieve metadata about available sources within the Obsidian vault knowledge base. This is a read-only operation with no side effects—it queries state without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing external operations. Low severity due to limited blast radius; misuse would only expose information about what sources exist, not sensitive data itself or destructive actions.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_available_sources' indicates a retrieval operation. No description provided, but naming convention and context as part of an RAG knowledge base server suggests listing or querying available data sources without modification.

The rule that runs get_available_sources safely

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

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

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