restart_application

What restart_application does on Coolify

AI agents invoke restart_application to trigger actions in Coolify. 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 restart_application is rated High

This tool executes an action that triggers a restart of an application, similar to running a shell command or triggering an external operation. While not permanently destructive, a restart can interrupt service availability, cause data loss if the application has unflushed state, and impact end users. It is not reversible in the sense that the downtime and any in-flight requests are lost.

From the tool's definition Tool named 'restart_application' with description 'Restart an application.' The verb 'restart' triggers an external operation (restarting a running service/application) whose effects depend on which application is specified as an argument.

The rule that runs restart_application safely

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

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

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