List learned skills available for workflow guidance.
AI agents call list_skills to retrieve information from Session Buddy without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and displays learned skills from the session memory for workflow guidance purposes. It performs only a data query with no capability to modify, delete, or execute operations. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an AI agent querying this tool would only gain access to read-only information about previously captured skills.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'list_skills' and description 'List learned skills' indicate a retrieval operation with no modification of data. The verb 'List' is explicitly a read operation that queries available skills without side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List learned skills available for workflow guidance. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Session Buddy MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Session Buddy MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_skills: 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 Session Buddy. Nothing to install.
list_skills 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 list_skills 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 list_skills. 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.
list_skills is provided by the Session Buddy MCP server (lesleslie/session-buddy). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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