Lists Docker containers with structured status, ports, and state information.
AI agents call ps to retrieve information from Make without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and displays information about Docker containers (status, ports, state) without modifying, executing, or deleting anything. It is a standard information-gathering operation analogous to the 'docker ps' command, which is purely informational. The blast radius of misuse is minimal as it only exposes container metadata already accessible to users with Docker daemon access.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'ps' and description states it 'Lists Docker containers with structured status, ports, and state information' — a read-only query operation with no side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access ps gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Make, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for ps:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"ps": {}
}
}ps is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
Free to start. No card required.
Lists Docker containers with structured status, ports, and state information. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Make MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Make MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for ps: 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 Make. Nothing to install.
ps 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 ps 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 ps. 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.
ps is provided by the Make MCP server (Dave-London/Pare). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Make, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
Free to start. No card required.
202 Make tools catalogued and risk-classified — across an index of 43,000+ MCP servers.