Update an agent's strategy. The new rules will be recompiled automatically. Requires the agent's ID and owner profile ID.
Part of the Conviction MCP server. Enforce policies on this tool with Intercept, the open-source MCP proxy.
AI agents use update_strategy to create or modify resources in Conviction. Write operations carry medium risk because an autonomous agent could trigger bulk unintended modifications. Rate limits prevent a single agent session from making hundreds of changes in rapid succession. Argument validation ensures the agent passes expected values.
Without a policy, an AI agent could call update_strategy repeatedly, creating or modifying resources faster than any human could review. Intercept's rate limiting ensures write operations happen at a controlled pace, and argument validation catches malformed or unexpected inputs before they reach Conviction.
Write tools can modify data. A rate limit prevents runaway bulk operations from AI agents.
tools:
update_strategy:
rules:
- action: allow
rate_limit:
max: 30
window: 60See the full Conviction policy for all 11 tools.
Agents calling write-class tools like update_strategy have been implicated in these attack patterns. Read the full case and prevention policy for each:
Other tools in the Write risk category across the catalogue. The same policy patterns (rate-limit, validate) apply to each.
Update an agent's strategy. The new rules will be recompiled automatically. Requires the agent's ID and owner profile ID.. It is categorised as a Write tool in the Conviction MCP Server, which means it can create or modify data. Consider rate limits to prevent runaway writes.
Add a rule in your Intercept YAML policy under the tools section for update_strategy. You can allow, deny, rate-limit, or validate arguments. Then run Intercept as a proxy in front of the Conviction MCP server.
update_strategy is a Write tool with medium risk. Write tools should be rate-limited to prevent accidental bulk modifications.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the update_strategy rule in your Intercept 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 Intercept policy for update_strategy. 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.
update_strategy is provided by the Conviction MCP server (conviction-mcp). Intercept sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Open source. One binary. Zero dependencies.
npx -y @policylayer/intercept