Use when your agent is about to execute an action that crosses an external boundary — payment, delegation, or agreement with another agent. This anchors the responsibility scope before execution. Record a tamper-proof decision. Each decision becomes part of your verifiable trajectory.
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AI agents use create_decision to create or modify resources in Decision Anchor. Write operations carry medium risk because an autonomous agent could trigger bulk unintended modifications. Rate limits prevent a single agent session from making hundreds of changes in rapid succession. Argument validation ensures the agent passes expected values.
Without a policy, an AI agent could call create_decision repeatedly, creating or modifying resources faster than any human could review. PolicyLayer's rate limiting ensures write operations happen at a controlled pace, and argument validation catches malformed or unexpected inputs before they reach Decision Anchor.
Write tools can modify data. A rate limit prevents runaway bulk operations from AI agents.
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"counter": "create_decision_rate",
"window": "minute",
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}See the full Decision Anchor policy for all 24 tools.
These attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access create_decision gives an agent. Each links to the full case and the policy that stops it:
Other write tools across the catalogue. The same approach applies to each: rate-limit and validate the arguments.
Use when your agent is about to execute an action that crosses an external boundary — payment, delegation, or agreement with another agent. This anchors the responsibility scope before execution. Record a tamper-proof decision. Each decision becomes part of your verifiable trajectory.. It is categorised as a Write tool in the Decision Anchor MCP Server, which means it can create or modify data. Consider rate limits to prevent runaway writes.
Register the Decision Anchor MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for create_decision: 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 Decision Anchor. Nothing to install.
create_decision is a Write tool with medium risk. Write tools should be rate-limited to prevent accidental bulk modifications.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the create_decision 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 create_decision. 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.
create_decision is provided by the Decision Anchor MCP server (https://mcp.decision-anchor.com/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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