list_credentials

What list_credentials does on Waiaas

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

Why list_credentials is rated Low

This tool retrieves/lists credentials without modifying them, placing it in the Read category. However, severity is high because credentials represent sensitive authentication material for a wallet server handling multi-chain crypto operations—exposure of these credentials could enable unauthorized transactions.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'list_credentials' indicates a retrieval operation that queries and returns stored credentials. The empty description is uninformative, but the function name strongly suggests a Read operation that enumerates sensitive authentication material.

The rule that runs list_credentials safely

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

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

Questions about list_credentials