auth_teams_list

What auth_teams_list does on Slack

AI agents call auth_teams_list to retrieve information from Slack without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why auth_teams_list is rated Low

This tool retrieves authentication-related team data without modifying or executing operations. The 'list' operation is inherently a read operation. In the Slack context with 220 tools providing 'full access' to messages, channels, and other resources, a tool that lists teams (likely for authentication/authorization purposes) would retrieve metadata rather than perform destructive or executable actions.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'auth_teams_list' indicates listing/retrieving team authentication information. The '_list' suffix is consistent with read operations per the rules (list, get, fetch). Description is empty, which reduces confidence slightly.

The rule that runs auth_teams_list safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Slack, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For auth_teams_list, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "auth_teams_list": {}
  }
}

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