Retrieve the full documentation content for a specific route. After finding relevant documentation with search-docs, use this tool to get the complete markdown content including code examples, detailed explanations, and API references.
AI agents call get-docs to retrieve information from Pdfdancer without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and returns documentation content from indexed docs. It is a read-only operation that retrieves pre-existing information without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing arbitrary operations. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could only access documentation that is already publicly indexed.
From the tool's definition Tool description explicitly states it 'Retrieve[s] the full documentation content' and 'get the complete markdown content'. The verb 'retrieve' and the nature of accessing indexed documentation indicates data retrieval with no side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Retrieve the full documentation content for a specific route. After finding relevant documentation with search-docs, use this tool to get the complete markdown content including code examples, detailed explanations, and API references. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Pdfdancer MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Pdfdancer MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get-docs: 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 Pdfdancer. Nothing to install.
get-docs 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-docs 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-docs. 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-docs is provided by the Pdfdancer MCP server (menschmachine/pdfdancer-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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