get_artifacts

What get_artifacts does on Cobalt Strike MCP Server

AI agents call get_artifacts to retrieve information from Cobalt Strike MCP Server without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why get_artifacts is rated Low

This tool performs information retrieval ('List') of artifacts, which is a Read operation. However, the severity is elevated to medium rather than low because: (1) the server context is Cobalt Strike, a red team/adversarial framework with high-impact capabilities, and (2) knowing what artifacts (BOFs—Beacon Object Files, malware modules) are available could enable an AI agent to select more effective payloads for…

From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_artifacts' and description 'List available artifacts (BOFs, etc.)' indicate a read-only query operation that retrieves information about available artifacts without modifying or executing them.

The rule that runs get_artifacts safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Cobalt Strike MCP Server, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For get_artifacts, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "get_artifacts": {}
  }
}

Questions about get_artifacts