conversations_info

What conversations_info does on Slack

AI agents call conversations_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 conversations_info is rated Low

This is a straightforward Read operation—it retrieves conversation metadata from Slack without creating, modifying, or deleting data. Severity is medium rather than low because conversation metadata (names, descriptions, membership, topics, pins) can reveal sensitive organizational information and thus has moderate blast radius if exposed to unauthorized agents; however, it causes no direct harm or side effects.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'conversations_info' and description 'Retrieve information about a conversation' indicate a query/retrieval operation with no data modification.

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

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

Questions about conversations_info