wallet_balance

What wallet_balance does on CoWork OS

AI agents call wallet_balance 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 wallet_balance is rated Low

This tool only retrieves balance information (a read operation) and does not execute transactions, transfer funds, or commit financial obligations. While it accesses financial data, the actual risk is minimal since no money moves and the action is non-destructive. Classified as Read rather than Financial because no financial commitment or movement occurs—only data retrieval.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'wallet_balance' and description 'Get the current USDC balance of the infrastructure wallet' indicate a read-only query operation that retrieves financial data without modifying or moving funds.

The rule that runs wallet_balance 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 wallet_balance, this is the rule to start with:

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

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