Create a new shopping cart for a merchant
AI agents use create_cart to create or update resources in Mcp Afip — usually the action step of a workflow, after the agent has gathered context. Every call changes real data in your Mcp Afip environment.
This tool creates a new shopping cart, which is a reversible write operation on transactional/commercial data. While it does not directly move money or delete data, it initiates a shopping transaction that could lead to financial obligations. The severity is medium because misuse could lead to spam carts, resource exhaustion, or fraudulent transaction initiation in an AFIP (tax authority) invoicing context.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'create_cart' and description 'Create a new shopping cart for a merchant' indicate a data creation operation that modifies state by instantiating a new cart resource.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access create_cart gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Mcp Afip, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for create_cart:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"create_cart": {
"limits": [
{
"counter": "create_cart_rate",
"window": "minute",
"max": 30,
"scope": "grant"
}
]
}
}
} create_cart stays usable, but capped — an agent stuck in a loop can't make hundreds of changes a minute. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Create a new shopping cart for a merchant. It is categorised as a Write tool in the Mcp Afip MCP Server, which means it can create or modify data. Consider rate limits to prevent runaway writes.
Register the Mcp Afip MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for create_cart: 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 Mcp Afip. Nothing to install.
create_cart 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 create_cart 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 create_cart. 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.
create_cart is provided by the Mcp Afip MCP server (codespar/mcp-dev-latam). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Mcp Afip, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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