federation_status

What federation_status does on Claude Flow

AI agents call federation_status to retrieve information from Claude Flow without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why federation_status is rated Low

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.

The rule that runs federation_status safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Claude Flow, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For federation_status, this is the rule to start with:

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

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