Find due cards and apply review-state actions such as answering, suspending, unsuspending, resetting, and relearning cards. Use this for scheduling and review flow, not for editing note content or reorganizing decks. Several operations mutate card state in Anki immediately;
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AI agents use study_session to create or modify resources in Anki. 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 study_session repeatedly, creating or modifying resources faster than any human could review. PolicyLayer's rate limiting ensures write operations happen at a controlled pace, and argument validation catches malformed or unexpected inputs before they reach Anki.
Write tools can modify data. A rate limit prevents runaway bulk operations from AI agents.
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"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"study_session": {
"limits": [
{
"counter": "study_session_rate",
"window": "minute",
"max": 30,
"scope": "grant"
}
]
}
}
}See the full Anki policy for all 25 tools.
These attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access study_session gives an agent. Each links to the full case and the policy that stops it:
Other write tools across the catalogue. The same approach applies to each: rate-limit and validate the arguments.
Find due cards and apply review-state actions such as answering, suspending, unsuspending, resetting, and relearning cards. Use this for scheduling and review flow, not for editing note content or reorganizing decks. Several operations mutate card state in Anki immediately;. It is categorised as a Write tool in the Anki MCP Server, which means it can create or modify data. Consider rate limits to prevent runaway writes.
Register the Anki MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for study_session: 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 Anki. Nothing to install.
study_session 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 study_session 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 study_session. 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.
study_session is provided by the Anki MCP server (@arielbk/anki-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Deterministic rules across all 25 Anki tools. Per-identity grants. Full audit log. Live in minutes. Nothing to install.
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