guidance_discover
Discover all available agents and skills from the .claude/ directory. Returns live filesystem data. Use when generic
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What guidance_discover does on Hamza Agent Hub 252
AI agents call guidance_discover to retrieve information from Hamza Agent Hub 252 without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Why guidance_discover is rated Low
This tool retrieves and lists available agents and skills from a directory structure—a data discovery/introspection operation. It queries the filesystem state without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing arbitrary code. The verb 'discover' and 'returns live filesystem data' confirm it is a read operation. No reversible writes, destructive actions, code execution, or financial implications are present.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'guidance_discover' and description 'Discover all available agents and skills from the .claude/ directory. Returns live filesystem data.' indicate read-only filesystem querying with no side effects.
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The rule that runs guidance_discover safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Hamza Agent Hub 252, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For guidance_discover, this is the rule to start with:
guidance_discover is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Hamza Agent Hub 252, apply this rule, and every guidance_discover call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about guidance_discover
Discover all available agents and skills from the .claude/ directory. Returns live filesystem data. Use when generic. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Hamza Agent Hub 252 MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Hamza Agent Hub 252 MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for guidance_discover: 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 Hamza Agent Hub 252. Nothing to install.
guidance_discover is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the guidance_discover 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 guidance_discover. 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.
guidance_discover is provided by the Hamza Agent Hub 252 MCP server (hamzachallenge3-dev/hamza-agent-hub-252). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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