deck_system_overview

What deck_system_overview does on Mcp Control Plane

AI agents call deck_system_overview to retrieve information from Mcp Control Plane without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why deck_system_overview is rated Low

This tool retrieves and reports system status metrics from a Steam Deck device. It performs no side effects, creates no changes, executes no commands, and triggers no external operations. It is purely informational and read-only. The low severity reflects that exposing system status has minimal direct security impact, though it could inform reconnaissance in a compromised environment.

From the tool's definition Tool description explicitly states it 'Return[s]' status information for storage, battery, network, Steam, and services — a passive query operation with no modification, deletion, or execution of external code.

The rule that runs deck_system_overview safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Mcp Control Plane, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For deck_system_overview, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "deck_system_overview": {}
  }
}

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