get-metrics

What get-metrics does on Claude Flow

AI agents call get-metrics 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 get-metrics is rated Low

This tool retrieves and queries existing metrics data. It has no capability to modify, delete, execute external operations, or move financial resources. The read-only nature and presence among other agent monitoring tools confirm this is a safe data retrieval operation. Low severity reflects minimal blast radius if misused—an agent could only retrieve potentially sensitive performance data, not alter system state.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'get-metrics' and description 'Get collected metrics' indicate data retrieval with no modification or side effects. Consistent with sibling tools like 'agent_metrics' and 'agent_health' which are monitoring/observability functions.

The rule that runs get-metrics 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 get-metrics, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "get-metrics": {}
  }
}

Questions about get-metrics