show_quality_gate
AI agents call show_quality_gate to retrieve information from Mcp Sonarcloud without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
The tool appears to display or retrieve quality gate configuration or status for a SonarCloud project. This is a data retrieval operation with no side effects—it queries existing information without modifying, executing external operations, or destructive actions. Confidence is slightly reduced due to empty description, but the tool's name and context strongly suggest a read-only operation.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'show_quality_gate' combined with sibling tools like 'get_project_quality_gate_status', 'get_quality_gate_by_project', and 'list_quality_gates' indicates this retrieves quality gate information. The verb 'show' is a read operation.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
show_quality_gate. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Sonarcloud MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Sonarcloud MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for show_quality_gate: 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 Mcp Sonarcloud. Nothing to install.
show_quality_gate 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 show_quality_gate 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 show_quality_gate. 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.
show_quality_gate is provided by the Mcp Sonarcloud MCP server (lukleh/mcp-sonarcloud). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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