run-health-check-group
Executes health checks for a specific group. WARNING: This will run system diagnostics which may take time and could temporarily affect system performance.
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What run-health-check-group does on Mcp Dev
AI agents invoke run-health-check-group 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 run-health-check-group is rated High
This tool executes system diagnostic operations, making it an Execute category tool rather than Read because it runs active processes with potential side effects (performance impact). The severity is high because unconstrained execution of diagnostics could consume resources, affect availability, or reveal sensitive system information.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'run-health-check-group' explicitly states it 'Executes health checks' and the description warns it 'will run system diagnostics' that 'could temporarily affect system performance.' This is a triggered operation with external effects on the system.
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The rule that runs run-health-check-group 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 run-health-check-group, this is the rule to start with:
run-health-check-group 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 run-health-check-group call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about run-health-check-group
Executes health checks for a specific group. WARNING: This will run system diagnostics which may take time and could temporarily affect system performance. 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 run-health-check-group: 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.
run-health-check-group 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 run-health-check-group 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 run-health-check-group. 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.
run-health-check-group 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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