List all flashcards, optionally filtered by project and/or tag. Shows front, tags, and review status. Supports pagination and ordering.
AI agents call list_flashcards to retrieve information from Flashcard MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool only queries and returns flashcard data without any side effects. It retrieves existing information (front text, tags, review status) with optional filtering and pagination. No data is created, modified, deleted, or executed. This is a straightforward Read operation with minimal blast radius — an AI agent misusing it could only retrieve flashcard contents, which are the user's own study materials.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'list_flashcards' and description 'List all flashcards, optionally filtered by project and/or tag. Shows front, tags, and review status. Supports pagination and ordering.' — pure retrieval operation with no modification or execution.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List all flashcards, optionally filtered by project and/or tag. Shows front, tags, and review status. Supports pagination and ordering. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Flashcard MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Flashcard MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_flashcards: 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 Flashcard MCP. Nothing to install.
list_flashcards 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_flashcards 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_flashcards. 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_flashcards is provided by the Flashcard MCP server (louislva/flashcards-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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