crow_tools
Route to external integration tools (Trello, Canvas, Slack, etc.) and remote Crow instances. Use crow_discover with category
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What crow_tools does on Crow
AI agents invoke crow_tools to trigger actions in Crow. What it does depends on the arguments the agent supplies, and its effects often reach beyond the immediate call: builds kicked off, notifications sent, workflows started.
Why crow_tools is rated High
This tool acts as a router/dispatcher to multiple external integrations and remote instances. The actual operations performed depend entirely on the arguments passed, which could span reading, writing, executing actions across Trello, Slack, Canvas, and other platforms.
From the tool's definition 'Route to external integration tools (Trello, Canvas, Slack, etc.) and remote Crow instances'
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The rule that runs crow_tools 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_tools, this is the rule to start with:
crow_tools stays usable, but rate-capped: a runaway agent can't fire it dozens of times a minute. 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_tools call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about crow_tools
Route to external integration tools (Trello, Canvas, Slack, etc.) and remote Crow instances. Use crow_discover with category. It is categorised as a Execute tool in the Crow MCP Server, which means it can trigger actions or run processes. Use rate limits and argument validation.
Register the Crow MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for crow_tools: 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_tools is a Execute tool with high risk. Execute tools should be rate-limited and have argument validation enabled.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the crow_tools 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_tools. 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_tools 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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