publish-document
Publishes a document by Id. IMPORTANT: If workflow approval is required, use the initiate-workflow-action function instead. This function bypasses approval workflows and publishes directly to the live site. When the culture is not provided, the default culture is null. When the schedule is not pr...
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What publish-document does on Mcp Dev
AI agents invoke publish-document to trigger actions in Mcp Dev. What it does depends on the arguments the agent supplies, and its effects often reach beyond the immediate call: builds kicked off, notifications sent, workflows started.
Why publish-document is rated High
Publishing a document directly to a live site is an external operation with significant real-world impact — it makes content publicly visible immediately, bypassing approval workflows. While not strictly destructive or financial, it triggers an irreversible external state change (live publication) that could expose unreviewed content to the public.
From the tool's definition 'Publishes a document by Id' and 'This function bypasses approval workflows and publishes directly to the live site'
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
The rule that runs publish-document 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 publish-document, this is the rule to start with:
publish-document stays usable, but rate-capped: a runaway agent can't fire it dozens of times a minute. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Mcp Dev, apply this rule, and every publish-document call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about publish-document
Publishes a document by Id. IMPORTANT: If workflow approval is required, use the initiate-workflow-action function instead. This function bypasses approval workflows and publishes directly to the live site. When the culture is not provided, the default culture is null. When the schedule is not provided, the default schedule is null. It is categorised as a Execute tool in the Mcp Dev MCP Server, which means it can trigger actions or run processes. Use rate limits and argument validation.
Register the Mcp Dev MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for publish-document: 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.
publish-document is a Execute tool with high risk. Execute tools should be rate-limited and have argument validation enabled.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the publish-document 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 publish-document. 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.
publish-document 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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