team_info

What team_info does on Slack

AI agents call team_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 team_info is rated Low

This tool retrieves metadata about a Slack team/workspace. It performs a query operation with no capability to modify data, execute code, delete resources, or commit financial transactions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could only access already-authorized team information, which is typically low-sensitivity metadata. Confidence is high because the intent is unambiguous.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'team_info' and description 'Get information about the current team' indicate a retrieval operation with no modification or side effects.

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

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

Questions about team_info