Get child pages of a specific page
AI agents call confluence_get_page_children to retrieve information from Jira & Confluence 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 hierarchical page information from Confluence without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a pure query/read operation with no side effects, fitting squarely in the Read category. The severity is low as the blast radius of misconfigured access is limited to information disclosure of page structure.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'confluence_get_page_children' and description 'Get child pages of a specific page' indicate a retrieval operation with no modification or deletion of data.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get child pages of a specific page. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Jira & Confluence MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Jira & Confluence MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for confluence_get_page_children: 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 Jira & Confluence MCP Server. Nothing to install.
confluence_get_page_children 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 confluence_get_page_children 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 confluence_get_page_children. 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.
confluence_get_page_children is provided by the Jira & Confluence MCP Server MCP server (katsuhirohonda/jira-confluence-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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