Retrieve all available courses with their teachers.
AI agents call get_courses to retrieve information from Smartschool 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 educational metadata (courses and associated teacher information) from the Smartschool system. It performs a read-only query with no capability to modify, delete, or execute operations. The data returned is informational and available to the authenticated user within their school context, presenting minimal security risk even if misused by an AI agent.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_courses' and description 'Retrieve all available courses with their teachers' indicate a query operation that returns course information without modification or side effects.
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Retrieve all available courses with their teachers. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Smartschool MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Smartschool MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_courses: 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 Smartschool MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_courses 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 get_courses 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 get_courses. 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.
get_courses is provided by the Smartschool MCP Server MCP server (maurodruwel/smartschool-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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