List all Alfred skills with optional filtering, sorting, and pagination
AI agents call alfred_list_skills to retrieve information from Alfred MCP Server 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 a list of existing Alfred skills with optional filters and sorting. It has no side effects—it does not create, modify, delete, or execute any skills. The operation is a pure read of skill metadata. Severity is low because listing skills exposes only metadata without triggering automation or accessing sensitive data beyond what an authenticated user should already see.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'alfred_list_skills' and description 'List all Alfred skills with optional filtering, sorting, and pagination' indicate a query/retrieval operation with no modification, deletion, or execution of skills.
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List all Alfred skills with optional filtering, sorting, and pagination. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Alfred MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Alfred MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for alfred_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 Alfred MCP Server. Nothing to install.
alfred_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 alfred_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 alfred_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.
alfred_list_skills is provided by the Alfred MCP Server MCP server (lumberjack-so/alfred-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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