Read clipboard contents (text, HTML, or image as base64).
AI agents call clipboard_read to retrieve information from OODA Computer Control without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool only retrieves data from the clipboard without altering, deleting, or executing anything. It is purely informational. Severity is low because clipboard contents are typically visible to the user anyway and pose minimal risk if an AI agent reads them, though an agent could theoretically extract sensitive information previously copied by the user.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'clipboard_read' and description 'Read clipboard contents (text, HTML, or image as base64)' indicate retrieval of data with no modification or side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access clipboard_read gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and OODA Computer Control, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for clipboard_read:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"clipboard_read": {}
}
}clipboard_read is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Read clipboard contents (text, HTML, or image as base64). It is categorised as a Read tool in the OODA Computer Control MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the OODA Computer Control MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for clipboard_read: 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 OODA Computer Control. Nothing to install.
clipboard_read 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 clipboard_read 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 clipboard_read. 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.
clipboard_read is provided by the OODA Computer Control MCP server (mnehmos/mnehmos.ooda.mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from OODA Computer Control, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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