stream_info_groups

What stream_info_groups does on AWS

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

Why stream_info_groups is rated Low

This tool retrieves metadata about consumer groups in an AWS stream (likely Kinesis). No data is created, modified, deleted, or executed. The only argument is a key name for filtering, and the output is informational. This is a standard Read operation with minimal blast radius—at worst, an agent could enumerate consumer groups to gather reconnaissance data.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'stream_info_groups' and description 'Get information about consumer groups' indicate a query/retrieval operation. The verb 'Get' and return type 'Consumer groups information' confirm read-only data retrieval with no side effects.

The rule that runs stream_info_groups safely

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

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

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