Get a Lichess user
AI agents call lichess_get_user to retrieve information from Lichess MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves public user profile information from Lichess, which is a read-only operation with no destructive, financial, or irreversible consequences. The worst-case misuse would be enumeration of user profiles or gathering of public information, which poses minimal risk. Classified as Read with low severity.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'lichess_get_user' and description 'Get a Lichess user' indicate retrieval of user profile data with no modification or side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get a Lichess user. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Lichess MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Lichess MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for lichess_get_user: 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 Lichess MCP. Nothing to install.
lichess_get_user 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 lichess_get_user 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 lichess_get_user. 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.
lichess_get_user is provided by the Lichess MCP server (jamespdaily/lichess-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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