List available resume templates.
AI agents call list_templates to retrieve information from Resume Forge MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a straightforward data retrieval operation—listing templates—with no side effects, code execution, data modification, or destructive actions. It is clearly a Read-category tool. The severity is low because exposure of template metadata poses minimal security risk and has no blast radius if an AI agent misuses it by calling it repeatedly or with unexpected arguments.
From the tool's definition The tool name 'list_templates' and description 'List available resume templates' indicate a retrieval operation with no modification or execution of code. It queries and returns data about available templates.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List available resume templates. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Resume Forge MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Resume Forge MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_templates: 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 Resume Forge MCP. Nothing to install.
list_templates 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 list_templates 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 list_templates. 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.
list_templates is provided by the Resume Forge MCP server (jitendrasinghsankhwar/resume-forge-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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