outdated

What outdated does on Search

AI agents invoke outdated to trigger actions in Search. What it does depends on the arguments the agent supplies, and its effects often reach beyond the immediate call: builds kicked off, notifications sent, workflows started.

Why outdated is rated High

The description is truncated to just 'Runs', which strongly implies it executes a command. Given the sibling tools include package management operations (add-package, audit), this tool most likely runs an outdated-packages check command. Execute is the appropriate category since it triggers an external operation/process. Confidence is low due to the uninformative description.

From the tool's definition Tool name is 'outdated'; description only says 'Runs' (truncated/uninformative). In the context of a dev-tools server with package management tools (add-package, audit), 'outdated' likely runs a package outdated check command (e.g., npm outdated).

The rule that runs outdated safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Search, 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 For outdated, this is the rule to start with: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    "outdated": {
      "limits": [
        {
          "counter": "outdated_rate",
          "window": "minute",
          "max": 10,
          "scope": "grant"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

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