Full box score with player stats. Accepts game_id.
AI agents call get_box_score to retrieve information from Nba Stats without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves NBA box score data (player statistics from a completed game) without creating, modifying, executing, deleting, or moving any data. It is a straightforward read operation on a sports statistics database. No side effects, no destructive actions, no code execution, and no financial implications.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_box_score' and description 'Full box score with player stats. Accepts game_id.' indicate data retrieval with no modification or execution. The tool queries and returns existing statistics.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_box_score gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Nba Stats, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_box_score:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_box_score": {}
}
}get_box_score is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Full box score with player stats. Accepts game_id. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Nba Stats MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Nba Stats MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_box_score: 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 Nba Stats. Nothing to install.
get_box_score 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 get_box_score 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 get_box_score. 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.
get_box_score is provided by the Nba Stats MCP server (labeveryday/nba-stats-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Nba Stats, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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