List companies with optional filtering and pagination
AI agents call list_companies to retrieve information from Twenty CRM MCP Server 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 company records from the CRM without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It has no side effects on data. While it accesses customer data which could be sensitive, the lack of write or destructive capability and the read-only nature of the operation place it in the Read category with low severity, as the blast radius of misuse is limited to information…
From the tool's definition Tool name 'list_companies' and description 'List companies with optional filtering and pagination' indicate data retrieval with no modification capability.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access list_companies gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Twenty CRM MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for list_companies:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"list_companies": {}
}
}list_companies is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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List companies with optional filtering and pagination. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Twenty CRM MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Twenty CRM MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_companies: 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 Twenty CRM MCP Server. Nothing to install.
list_companies 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 list_companies 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 list_companies. 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.
list_companies is provided by the Twenty CRM MCP Server MCP server (mhenry3164/twenty-crm-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Twenty CRM MCP Server, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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