output

What output does on Search

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

Why output is rated Low

This is a read-only query operation that retrieves and displays Terraform output variables. It has no side effects—it does not create, modify, delete, or execute anything. The data returned may contain sensitive information, but accessing it is a passive read operation. Severity is low because misuse would only expose information already in the Terraform state, not cause infrastructure changes or data loss.

From the tool's definition The tool 'output' performs a retrieval operation: 'Shows Terraform output values from the current state.' It returns structured data (name/value/type/sensitive) without modifying infrastructure or state.

The rule that runs output 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 output, this is the rule to start with:

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

Questions about output