bots_info

What bots_info does on Slack

AI agents call bots_info 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 bots_info is rated Low

This tool retrieves metadata about bot users in Slack, which is a read-only query operation. It has no side effects, does not modify data, execute code, delete resources, or involve financial transactions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an attacker could enumerate bot users or gather reconnaissance information, but cannot alter systems or data.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'bots_info' and description 'Get info for a bot user' indicate a retrieval operation that queries information about bot users without modifying or executing anything.

The rule that runs bots_info 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 bots_info, this is the rule to start with:

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

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