List all available US courts and their short codes.
AI agents call list_available_courts to retrieve information from LegalMCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and queries publicly available reference data about US court metadata (names and codes). It does not modify, delete, or execute any operations—it simply lists existing court information, making it a straightforward Read operation with minimal risk.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'list_available_courts' and description 'List all available US courts and their short codes' indicate a simple data retrieval operation with no side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access list_available_courts gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and LegalMCP, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for list_available_courts:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"list_available_courts": {}
}
}list_available_courts is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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List all available US courts and their short codes. It is categorised as a Read tool in the LegalMCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Legal MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_available_courts: 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 LegalMCP. Nothing to install.
list_available_courts 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_available_courts 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_available_courts. 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_available_courts is provided by the Legal MCP server (mahender22/legal-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from LegalMCP, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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