get-member

What get-member does on Mcp Dev

AI agents call get-member 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-member is rated Low

This tool retrieves member information by identifier. It performs a read-only lookup with no capability to modify, delete, or execute actions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an attacker gains access to member profile data but cannot change or destroy it. Severity is low because read operations on user data in a CMS context are generally lower risk than write, execute, or destructive operations.

From the tool's definition Tool name is 'get-member' and description states 'Gets a member by Id' — a straightforward query operation that retrieves data without modification or side effects.

The rule that runs get-member 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-member, this is the rule to start with:

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

Questions about get-member