tree

What tree does on Search

AI agents call tree 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 tree is rated Low

This tool queries and displays dependency information from a Rust project's manifest file(s). It has no side effects, makes no modifications to the project, and does not execute code or external operations. It is purely a read operation that retrieves and formats existing metadata for display.

From the tool's definition The tool 'Displays the dependency tree' is a retrieval operation that reads and presents existing project metadata. It performs no data modification, deletion, or code execution. The description explicitly indicates a read-only informational function.

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

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

Questions about tree