get_secret_scanning_alert

What get_secret_scanning_alert does on GitHub

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

Why get_secret_scanning_alert is rated Low

This tool queries or retrieves information about a secret scanning alert in GitHub without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. While the alert relates to security-sensitive information (secrets), the tool itself only reads/accesses existing alert data. The exposure of alert details has low blast radius compared to operations that could modify repositories, delete data, or execute workflows.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_secret_scanning_alert' and description 'Get secret scanning alert' indicate a retrieval operation with no modification. The verb 'get' is explicitly listed as a Read operation in the classification rules.

The rule that runs get_secret_scanning_alert safely

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

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

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