stirling_status

What stirling_status does on Crow

AI agents call stirling_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 stirling_status is rated Low

This is a simple health check or monitoring tool that retrieves status information about a service. It queries and returns data without modifying, executing code, deleting, or committing financial transactions. The action is passive and informational in nature, fitting clearly into the Read category with low severity since misuse would only expose service availability metadata.

From the tool's definition Tool performs a status check by querying the HTTP status of a remote service endpoint. The description explicitly states it 'Check[s] whether the Stirling PDF container is reachable' and 'Returns the HTTP status', which are read-only diagnostic operations…

The rule that runs stirling_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 stirling_status, this is the rule to start with:

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

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