Update application questions — salary, years of experience, sponsorship, relocation, work authorization, notice period, and profile links.
AI agents use update_application_questions to create or update resources in Shortlist MCP Server — usually the action step of a workflow, after the agent has gathered context. Every call changes real data in your Shortlist MCP Server environment.
This tool modifies existing application data reversibly. While it touches sensitive personal information (salary expectations, work authorization status, sponsorship needs), it creates or modifies data rather than executing arbitrary code or irreversibly deleting information.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it updates application questions including salary, years of experience, sponsorship, relocation, work authorization, notice period, and profile links. The verb 'update' indicates modification of data.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access update_application_questions gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Shortlist MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for update_application_questions:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"update_application_questions": {
"limits": [
{
"counter": "update_application_questions_rate",
"window": "minute",
"max": 30,
"scope": "grant"
}
]
}
}
}update_application_questions stays usable, but capped — an agent stuck in a loop can't make hundreds of changes a minute. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Update application questions — salary, years of experience, sponsorship, relocation, work authorization, notice period, and profile links. It is categorised as a Write tool in the Shortlist MCP Server MCP Server, which means it can create or modify data. Consider rate limits to prevent runaway writes.
Register the Shortlist MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for update_application_questions: 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 Shortlist MCP Server. Nothing to install.
update_application_questions is a Write tool with medium risk. Write tools should be rate-limited to prevent accidental bulk modifications.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the update_application_questions 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 update_application_questions. 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.
update_application_questions is provided by the Shortlist MCP Server MCP server (mls-tech-inc/shortlistjobs-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Shortlist 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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