Get overview of project hive including total entries, category breakdown, and recent additions. Use when user says
AI agents call get_hive_overview to retrieve information from Hivemind MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and returns information about a knowledge base hive (counts, breakdowns, recent entries) without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing operations. It is a pure read operation with minimal blast radius if misused by an AI agent—the worst outcome would be unnecessary API calls or information disclosure within an already-accessible knowledge base.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_hive_overview' and description 'Get overview of project hive including total entries, category breakdown, and recent additions' indicate retrieval of metadata and summary statistics with no modification or side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get overview of project hive including total entries, category breakdown, and recent additions. Use when user says. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Hivemind MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Hivemind MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_hive_overview: 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 Hivemind MCP. Nothing to install.
get_hive_overview 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 get_hive_overview 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 get_hive_overview. 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.
get_hive_overview is provided by the Hivemind MCP server (kevthetech143/hivemind-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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