AI agents call get-member-by-id-referenced-by 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 and queries reference relationships in Umbraco CMS without modifying, creating, or deleting any data. It has no side effects beyond returning information about existing relationships. This is a straightforward read operation with minimal security risk when misused by an AI agent, as the worst outcome would be information disclosure of existing reference relationships.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Get items that reference a specific member' and 'find all content, documents, or other items that are currently referencing a specific member account.' The verb 'get' and 'find' indicate retrieval/querying operations with no…
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Get items that reference a specific member Use this to find all content, documents, or other items that are currently referencing a specific member account. 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-member-by-id-referenced-by: 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-member-by-id-referenced-by 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-member-by-id-referenced-by 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-member-by-id-referenced-by. 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-member-by-id-referenced-by 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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