system_uptime

What system_uptime does on Mcp Windows

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

Why system_uptime is rated Low

This tool retrieves read-only information about how long the system has been running. It performs no writes, deletions, code execution, or financial operations. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an attacker gaining access to uptime information poses negligible risk compared to other system management tools available on this server.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'system_uptime' and description 'Get system uptime information' indicate a query operation that retrieves system metrics without modification or side effects.

Risk signalsAdmin/system-level operation

The rule that runs system_uptime safely

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

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

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