outdated

What outdated does on Git

AI agents call outdated to retrieve information from Git without modifying anything.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Why outdated is rated Low

The tool appears to check for outdated dependencies or packages rather than modify them. Without complete documentation, conservatively classified as Read since outdated-checking is typically a query operation. Confidence lowered due to incomplete description.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'outdated' and truncated description 'Runs' provide minimal information. Based on context of git operations server and sibling tools (add, apply, archive, audit), this likely queries or checks status without modifying data.

The rule that runs outdated safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Git, 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 For outdated, this is the rule to start with: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    "outdated": {}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Questions about outdated