List user groups from Okta with optional filtering and pagination
AI agents call list_groups to retrieve information from Okta MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and queries group information from Okta's system without creating, modifying, deleting, executing code, or moving funds. It is a standard read operation with no side effects. Severity is low because exposure of group membership information, while sensitive, is less critical than write or destructive operations available on this server (create_user, delete_user, deactivate_user, etc.).
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'list_groups' and description states 'List user groups from Okta with optional filtering and pagination'. The verb 'list' indicates data retrieval with no modification. Filtering and pagination are query parameters that do not alter state.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access list_groups gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Okta MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for list_groups:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"list_groups": {}
}
}list_groups is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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List user groups from Okta with optional filtering and pagination. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Okta MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Okta MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_groups: 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 Okta MCP Server. Nothing to install.
list_groups 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_groups 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_groups. 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_groups is provided by the Okta MCP Server MCP server (kapilduraphe/okta-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Okta MCP 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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