outdated

What outdated does on Cargo

AI agents call outdated to retrieve information from Cargo without modifying anything.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

Why outdated is rated Low

The 'outdated' tool retrieves information about outdated dependencies in a Rust project. It is a read-only operation that queries dependency metadata and reports on available updates without making any changes to the codebase or dependencies. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—worst case, an AI agent learns about outdated packages, which is informational only.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'outdated' combined with Rust cargo context suggests `cargo outdated`, which checks for newer versions of dependencies without modifying anything.

The rule that runs outdated safely

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 For outdated, this is the rule to start with:

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    "outdated": {}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

Questions about outdated