List vulnerabilities from Vanta with optional severity, status, and service filters. WORKFLOW: - Start here to review open vulnerability posture. - Use page_size and page_cursor for pagination. RELATED TOOLS: - vanta_get_vulnerability for full details on one vulnerability. RETURNS: - JSON with ok...
AI agents call vanta_list_vulnerabilities to retrieve information from Apple Shortcuts without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and queries vulnerability data from Vanta with filter and pagination support. It has no side effects—it only reads existing vulnerability information. The workflow explicitly states 'Start here to review open vulnerability posture,' confirming a read-only inspection purpose. No data creation, modification, deletion, or command execution is involved.
From the tool's definition Tool name contains 'list' and description states 'List vulnerabilities from Vanta with optional severity, status, and service filters.' Returns JSON with vulnerabilities data and supports pagination via page_size and page_cursor.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access vanta_list_vulnerabilities gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Apple Shortcuts, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for vanta_list_vulnerabilities:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"vanta_list_vulnerabilities": {}
}
}vanta_list_vulnerabilities is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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List vulnerabilities from Vanta with optional severity, status, and service filters. WORKFLOW: - Start here to review open vulnerability posture. - Use page_size and page_cursor for pagination. RELATED TOOLS: - vanta_get_vulnerability for full details on one vulnerability. RETURNS: - JSON with ok, vulnerabilities, count, and pageInfo. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apple Shortcuts MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Apple Shortcuts MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for vanta_list_vulnerabilities: 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 Apple Shortcuts. Nothing to install.
vanta_list_vulnerabilities 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 vanta_list_vulnerabilities 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 vanta_list_vulnerabilities. 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.
vanta_list_vulnerabilities is provided by the Apple Shortcuts MCP server (@mindstone/mcp-server-apple-shortcuts). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Apple Shortcuts, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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