Get navigation history for a workspace session.
AI agents call desktop_history to retrieve information from MCP Roo Memory without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and retrieves historical data about desktop/workspace navigation without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It has no side effects and poses minimal risk—typical of information-retrieval tools. Low severity is appropriate as exposure of navigation history alone would cause limited harm.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'desktop_history' and description 'Get navigation history' indicate a retrieval operation with no modification. The verb 'Get' explicitly signals a read-only action.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get navigation history for a workspace session. It is categorised as a Read tool in the MCP Roo Memory MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the MCP Roo Memory MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for desktop_history: 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 Roo Memory. Nothing to install.
desktop_history 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 desktop_history 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 desktop_history. 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.
desktop_history is provided by the MCP Roo Memory MCP server (mcasdfgf/mcp-roo-memory). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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