smartling_costs
AI agents call smartling_costs to retrieve information from Smartling MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Despite the financial domain context (Smartling translation management), the tool name indicates a query or retrieval operation ('costs'), not a transaction, payment, or financial commitment. No write, execute, or destructive capability is evident.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'smartling_costs' with empty description suggests retrieval of cost/pricing data. The 'costs' naming pattern is typical of read-only queries that report financial metrics or usage summaries without modifying state.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
smartling_costs. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Smartling MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Smartling MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for smartling_costs: 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 Smartling MCP Server. Nothing to install.
smartling_costs 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 smartling_costs 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 smartling_costs. 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.
smartling_costs is provided by the Smartling MCP Server MCP server (jacobolevy/smartling-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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