List all available MidOS skills.
AI agents call midos_skills to retrieve information from MidOS - MCP Community Library without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and enumerates available skills from the MidOS knowledge API without creating, modifying, executing, or deleting any data. Listing operations are intrinsically non-destructive and produce read-only output. The low severity reflects minimal blast radius—an agent listing skills cannot cause harm through misuse of this specific tool.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'midos_skills' and description 'List all available MidOS skills' indicate a retrieval/query operation with no side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List all available MidOS skills. It is categorised as a Read tool in the MidOS - MCP Community Library MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the MidOS - MCP Community Library MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for midos_skills: 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 MidOS - MCP Community Library. Nothing to install.
midos_skills 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 midos_skills 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 midos_skills. 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.
midos_skills is provided by the MidOS - MCP Community Library MCP server (midos-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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