get-document-ancestors

What get-document-ancestors does on Mcp Dev

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

Why get-document-ancestors is rated Low

This tool retrieves hierarchical information about a document's ancestors in Umbraco CMS. The 'get' verb and the passive retrieval nature of the operation confirm this is a Read category tool. The severity is low because querying document structure poses minimal risk even if misused by an AI agent—it cannot modify, delete, or execute operations. Confidence is high due to the clear and explicit retrieval semantics.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'get-document-ancestors' and description 'Gets ancestor items for a document' indicate a retrieval operation with no modification, deletion, or execution of code.

The rule that runs get-document-ancestors safely

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

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "get-document-ancestors": {}
  }
}

Questions about get-document-ancestors