Add Schedule C self-employment income and expenses.
AI agents use crow_tax_set_self_employment to create or update resources in Crow — usually the action step of a workflow, after the agent has gathered context. Every call changes real data in your Crow environment.
This tool creates or modifies tax filing data, which is write-level activity. While it involves financial information (Schedule C self-employment tax records), it does not move money, process payments, or commit financial obligations directly—it records income/expense data.
From the tool's definition Tool explicitly performs 'Add' operation on Schedule C tax records, creating new financial data entries. Description directly states 'Add Schedule C self-employment income and expenses' indicating write-level data modification.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access crow_tax_set_self_employment gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Crow, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for crow_tax_set_self_employment:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"crow_tax_set_self_employment": {
"limits": [
{
"counter": "crow_tax_set_self_employment_rate",
"window": "minute",
"max": 30,
"scope": "grant"
}
]
}
}
}crow_tax_set_self_employment stays usable, but capped — an agent stuck in a loop can't make hundreds of changes a minute. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Add Schedule C self-employment income and expenses. It is categorised as a Write tool in the Crow MCP Server, which means it can create or modify data. Consider rate limits to prevent runaway writes.
Register the Crow MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for crow_tax_set_self_employment: 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_tax_set_self_employment is a Write tool with medium risk. Write tools should be rate-limited to prevent accidental bulk modifications.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the crow_tax_set_self_employment 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_tax_set_self_employment. 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_tax_set_self_employment 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.
Start from Crow, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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