read_clipboard

What read_clipboard does on CoWork OS

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

Why read_clipboard is rated Low

This tool retrieves data from the clipboard without altering it, creating side effects, or executing commands. It is a pure read operation with minimal risk—clipboard data may contain sensitive information, but the tool itself performs no destructive, write, or execution operations. Severity is low because misuse would only expose existing data rather than cause system-wide damage or financial harm.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'read_clipboard' and description 'Read the current contents of the system clipboard' explicitly indicate a retrieval operation with no modification or side effects.

The rule that runs read_clipboard safely

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

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

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