Create a text frame with advanced formatting options
AI agents use create_text_frame to create or update resources in Indesign — usually the action step of a workflow, after the agent has gathered context. Every call changes real data in your Indesign environment.
This tool creates new document elements (text frames) in an Adobe InDesign file. Creating content is a reversible write operation — the text frame can be deleted or modified later. It does not execute arbitrary code, delete data, move money, or perform irreversible destructive actions.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'create_text_frame' and description states it 'Create[s] a text frame with advanced formatting options'. Creating a text frame modifies the InDesign document by adding new content.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access create_text_frame gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Indesign, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for create_text_frame:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"create_text_frame": {
"limits": [
{
"counter": "create_text_frame_rate",
"window": "minute",
"max": 30,
"scope": "grant"
}
]
}
}
}create_text_frame stays usable, but capped — an agent stuck in a loop can't make hundreds of changes a minute. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Create a text frame with advanced formatting options. It is categorised as a Write tool in the Indesign MCP Server, which means it can create or modify data. Consider rate limits to prevent runaway writes.
Register the Indesign MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for create_text_frame: 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 Indesign. Nothing to install.
create_text_frame is a Write tool with medium risk. Write tools should be rate-limited to prevent accidental bulk modifications.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the create_text_frame 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 create_text_frame. 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.
create_text_frame is provided by the Indesign MCP server (lucdesign/indesign-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Indesign, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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