Get federation health status including active sessions, peers, and trust levels
AI agents call federation_status 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 observability data about federation state (active sessions, peers, trust levels) with no side effects, matching the definition of Read category. The verb 'Get' and passive data retrieval confirm no modifications, code execution, or destructive actions occur. Severity is low because misuse would only expose status information, not enable harmful actions directly.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'federation_status' and description 'Get federation health status including active sessions, peers, and trust levels' indicate a read-only query operation that retrieves monitoring/status data without modifying or executing external operations.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get federation health status including active sessions, peers, and trust levels. 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_status: 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_status 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_status 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_status. 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_status 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.