Get messages from a room
AI agents call agent_communication_get_messages to retrieve information from Agent Communication 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 data (messages) from a room without modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a read-only operation that returns information. The low severity reflects minimal risk from misuse—an agent could retrieve messages it shouldn't have access to, but this would be an authorization/access control issue rather than a capability of the tool itself to cause harm.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_messages' and description 'Get messages from a room' indicate a retrieval operation with no side effects. This is purely a query to fetch existing messages.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get messages from a room. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Agent Communication MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Agent Communication MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for agent_communication_get_messages: 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 Agent Communication MCP Server. Nothing to install.
agent_communication_get_messages 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 agent_communication_get_messages 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 agent_communication_get_messages. 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.
agent_communication_get_messages is provided by the Agent Communication MCP Server MCP server (mkxultra/agent-communication-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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