crow_sharing_status
Show your Crow identity, connected peers, relay status, and sharing statistics.
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What crow_sharing_status does on Crow
AI agents call crow_sharing_status 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_sharing_status is rated Low
This tool purely queries and displays existing state information (identity, peer connections, relay status, statistics). It performs no create, update, delete, execute, or financial operations. The read-only nature and lack of side effects clearly place it in the Read category with low severity risk.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Show your Crow identity, connected peers, relay status, and sharing statistics' — uses the verb 'Show' and retrieves informational status about the system and connections without modifying any data.
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The rule that runs crow_sharing_status 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_sharing_status, this is the rule to start with:
crow_sharing_status is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Crow, apply this rule, and every crow_sharing_status call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about crow_sharing_status
Show your Crow identity, connected peers, relay status, and sharing statistics. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Crow MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Crow MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for crow_sharing_status: 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 Crow. Nothing to install.
crow_sharing_status 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 crow_sharing_status 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 crow_sharing_status. 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.
crow_sharing_status is provided by the Crow MCP server (kh0pper/crow). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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