List all recent security scans tracked locally with their status.
AI agents call list_scans to retrieve information from Amazon ElastiCache Memcached MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a read-only operation to retrieve and display security scan information. It has no side effects, does not execute code, does not modify data, and does not involve financial transactions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could only view existing scan data, which at worst might leak metadata about security scans but poses no immediate risk to infrastructure or data integrity.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'list_scans' and description 'List all recent security scans tracked locally with their status' indicate a retrieval operation that queries local scan records without modifying, executing, or deleting any data.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List all recent security scans tracked locally with their status. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Amazon ElastiCache Memcached MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Amazon ElastiCache Memcached MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_scans: 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 Amazon ElastiCache Memcached MCP Server. Nothing to install.
list_scans is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the list_scans 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 list_scans. 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.
list_scans is provided by the Amazon ElastiCache Memcached MCP Server MCP server (awslabs.memcached-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.