crow_list_backends

What crow_list_backends does on Crow

AI agents call crow_list_backends 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_list_backends is rated Low

This tool performs a read-only operation that queries and returns data about backend systems without modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. The action of listing and checking connection status has no side effects on the backends themselves or the data they manage. The severity is low as the blast radius of misuse is limited to information disclosure about backend infrastructure.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'list_backends' and description 'List registered data backends with their connection status' indicate a query operation that retrieves information about existing backend configurations and their states.

The rule that runs crow_list_backends 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_list_backends, this is the rule to start with:

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

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