Assess risk for a specific file change Use when native
AI agents call analyze_file-risk to retrieve information from Claude Flow without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Although 'risk' appears in the name, the verb is 'assess'/'analyze', which retrieves and evaluates information about a file change without modifying, executing, or deleting anything. This is a Read operation. Severity is medium because it could inform or influence downstream decisions about destructive actions, but the tool itself performs no side effects. Confidence is lowered due to the truncated description.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'analyze_file-risk' and description states 'Assess risk for a specific file change' — it performs analysis/assessment of file changes, which is fundamentally a read operation querying or inspecting file data.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Assess risk for a specific file change Use when native. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Claude Flow MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Claude Flow MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for analyze_file-risk: 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 Claude Flow. Nothing to install.
analyze_file-risk 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 analyze_file-risk 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 analyze_file-risk. 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.
analyze_file-risk is provided by the Claude Flow MCP server (claude-flow). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.