run_metrics_assessment

What run_metrics_assessment does on ComplianceCow MCP Server

AI agents invoke run_metrics_assessment to trigger actions in ComplianceCow MCP Server. What it does depends on the arguments the agent supplies, and its effects often reach beyond the immediate call: builds kicked off, notifications sent, workflows started.

Why run_metrics_assessment is rated High

The tool executes an assessment process on the ComplianceCow platform. While not destructive or financial, triggering a metrics assessment is an active operation that initiates a workflow with side effects (generating reports, audit logs, or policy evaluations). An AI agent could misuse this by repeatedly triggering expensive assessments, generating false compliance records, or creating noise in audit trails.

From the tool's definition Tool name contains 'run' and description states 'Trigger a new metrics assessment run' — this initiates an external operation (assessment execution) whose effects depend on arguments and cannot be immediately reversed.

The rule that runs run_metrics_assessment safely

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

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "run_metrics_assessment": {
      "limits": [
        {
          "counter": "run_metrics_assessment_rate",
          "window": "minute",
          "max": 10,
          "scope": "grant"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Questions about run_metrics_assessment