Get details for a specific Confluence user by a unique identifier like username, account ID, or email. Returns user profile information. Use this tool when you are confident you can uniquely identify a user.
AI agents call get_confluence_user to retrieve information from Mcp Atlassian 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 user profile information from Confluence without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It has no side effects beyond information retrieval. The instruction to be 'confident you can uniquely identify a user' is a usage guideline, not indicative of destructive capability.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'Get details for a specific Confluence user' and 'Returns user profile information.' The verb 'Get' and the read-only nature of returning profile data indicate no data modification or side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get details for a specific Confluence user by a unique identifier like username, account ID, or email. Returns user profile information. Use this tool when you are confident you can uniquely identify a user. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Atlassian MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Atlassian MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_confluence_user: 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 Atlassian. Nothing to install.
get_confluence_user 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_confluence_user 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_confluence_user. 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_confluence_user is provided by the Mcp Atlassian MCP server (mcp-atlassian). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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