notificationID

What notificationID does on GitHub

AI agents call notificationID 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 notificationID is rated Low

This appears to be a reference identifier or query parameter used to look up or filter notifications. No side effects, modifications, or operations are performed by providing a notification ID—it merely identifies which notification thread to retrieve or act upon. This is consistent with Read category tools that query or retrieve data.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'notificationID' and description 'The ID of the notification thread' indicate this is a parameter or identifier field for retrieving/referencing notification data, not an action that modifies, executes, or deletes.

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

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

Questions about notificationID