View or review trust score details for a specific node
AI agents call federation_trust 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 trust score metadata for a federation node. There is no indication of write, deletion, execution, or financial operations. The action is informational and observational only, with no side effects or ability to alter system state. Low severity reflects minimal blast radius if misused by an AI agent—at worst, information disclosure of trust metrics.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'federation_trust' and description 'View or review trust score details for a specific node' indicate read-only operations. Keywords 'view' and 'review' denote querying/retrieving information without modification.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
View or review trust score details for a specific node. 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_trust: 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_trust 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_trust 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_trust. 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_trust 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.