List all known federation peers with their trust levels and status
AI agents call federation_peers 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.
This tool retrieves and queries federation peer metadata (trust levels, status) without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a pure read operation with minimal blast radius — the agent gains visibility into peer configurations but cannot alter them or trigger side effects.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'federation_peers' and description states 'List all known federation peers with their trust levels and status' — the verb 'List' and action of retrieving peer information with no modification capability.
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List all known federation peers with their trust levels and status. 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 federation_peers: 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.
federation_peers 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 federation_peers 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 federation_peers. 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.
federation_peers 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.