Find circular dependencies between packages
AI agents call find_circular_dependencies to retrieve information from MCP Code Analysis Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs static code analysis to detect circular dependencies. It reads and analyzes package relationships but does not modify, execute, delete, or create any code or data. It is a diagnostic/reporting tool typical of code analysis servers, making it a Read category risk with low severity since misuse would only surface information already present in the codebase.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Find circular dependencies between packages' — a pure analysis/query operation with no side effects. It retrieves and reports on code structure relationships.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access find_circular_dependencies gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and MCP Code Analysis Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for find_circular_dependencies:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"find_circular_dependencies": {}
}
}find_circular_dependencies is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Find circular dependencies between packages. It is categorised as a Read tool in the MCP Code Analysis Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the MCP Code Analysis Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for find_circular_dependencies: 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 MCP Code Analysis Server. Nothing to install.
find_circular_dependencies 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 find_circular_dependencies 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 find_circular_dependencies. 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.
find_circular_dependencies is provided by the MCP Code Analysis Server MCP server (johannhartmann/mcpcodeanalysis). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from MCP Code Analysis Server, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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