Request the shipping label / air waybill PDF for one or more orders. Returns a download URL or base64 document payload depending on channel. Call create_shipping_document first if your flow requires pre-generation.
AI agents call download_shipping_document to retrieve information from Mcp Afip without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves pre-generated shipping documents. It performs a read-only operation that queries and returns data without side effects. The mention of 'Call create_shipping_document first if your flow requires pre-generation' indicates this tool does not create documents itself, only downloads them. No data is modified, deleted, or irreversibly changed.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'Request the shipping label / air waybill PDF' and 'Returns a download URL or base64 document payload' — pure retrieval of existing documents with no modification, creation, or deletion.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access download_shipping_document 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 download_shipping_document:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"download_shipping_document": {}
}
} download_shipping_document is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Request the shipping label / air waybill PDF for one or more orders. Returns a download URL or base64 document payload depending on channel. Call create_shipping_document first if your flow requires pre-generation. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Afip MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Afip MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for download_shipping_document: 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.
download_shipping_document is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the download_shipping_document 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 download_shipping_document. 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.
download_shipping_document 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.
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