AI agents call get-document-public-access to retrieve information from Mcp Dev without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves document access control metadata without modifying, deleting, or executing operations. It is a pure read operation that queries document properties. The ability to resolve inherited settings via includeAncestors parameter does not change its fundamental nature as a read-only retrieval operation.
From the tool's definition Tool name contains 'get-' and description states 'Gets the public access settings for a document by Id' with no mention of modification, deletion, or execution capabilities.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Gets the public access settings for a document by Id. Set includeAncestors=true to also resolve protection inherited from an ancestor (the response. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Dev MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Dev MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get-document-public-access: 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 Dev. Nothing to install.
get-document-public-access 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-document-public-access 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-document-public-access. 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-document-public-access is provided by the Mcp Dev MCP server (@umbraco-cms/mcp-dev). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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