guidance_capabilities

List all capability areas with their tools, commands, agents, and skills. Use this to discover what Ruflo can do. Use when generic

Server Claude Flow claude-flow
Category Read
Risk class Low
Parameters 00 required

What guidance_capabilities does on Claude Flow

AI agents call guidance_capabilities 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.

Why guidance_capabilities needs a policy

This tool retrieves and enumerates capability metadata for informational/discovery purposes. It performs no mutations, deletions, code execution, or financial operations. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent might learn what tools exist, but cannot invoke them or cause harm through this tool alone. Classified as Read with low severity.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'guidance_capabilities' and description 'List all capability areas' indicates a query/discovery operation with no side effects. The verb 'List' and phrase 'discover what Ruflo can do' confirm retrieval of metadata.

Questions about guidance_capabilities

What does the guidance_capabilities tool do? +

List all capability areas with their tools, commands, agents, and skills. Use this to discover what Ruflo can do. Use when generic. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Claude Flow MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.

How do I enforce a policy on guidance_capabilities? +

Register the Claude Flow MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for guidance_capabilities: 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.

What risk level is guidance_capabilities? +

guidance_capabilities is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.

Can I rate-limit guidance_capabilities? +

Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the guidance_capabilities 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.

How do I block guidance_capabilities completely? +

Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for guidance_capabilities. 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.

What MCP server provides guidance_capabilities? +

guidance_capabilities 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.

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