crow_backend_schema

What crow_backend_schema does on Crow

AI agents call crow_backend_schema to retrieve information from Crow without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why crow_backend_schema is rated Low

This tool queries and returns schema metadata about a data backend's structure and available tools. The verb 'show' and the absence of any modification language (create, update, delete, execute) classify this as a Read operation. The severity is low because schema discovery poses minimal risk—it exposes structural information but not sensitive data itself, and has no side effects or operational impact.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'crow_backend_schema' and description 'Show discovered tools and schema for a data backend' indicate a read-only operation that retrieves and displays schema information without modifying data.

The rule that runs crow_backend_schema safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Crow, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For crow_backend_schema, this is the rule to start with:

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

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