get_active_listeners

What get_active_listeners does on Cocos

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

Why get_active_listeners is rated Low

This tool queries and retrieves information about existing broadcast listeners in the Cocos Creator editor. It performs a read-only operation that returns state information without modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an AI agent obtaining this list cannot cause harm beyond information disclosure of the editor's internal state.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_active_listeners' and description 'Get list of active broadcast listeners' indicate a retrieval operation with no modification or execution of side effects.

The rule that runs get_active_listeners safely

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

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

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