user_groups_list

What user_groups_list does on Mcp Windows

AI agents call user_groups_list 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 user_groups_list is rated Low

This tool retrieves system metadata (user groups) in a read-only manner with no side effects, falling squarely into the Read category. The blast radius is minimal as it only exposes group membership information that a local user would typically access through standard Windows commands like 'net localgroup'. No data is modified, deleted, or executed.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'user_groups_list' and description 'List local user groups' indicate a query operation that retrieves information about system user groups without modification or execution.

The rule that runs user_groups_list 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 user_groups_list, this is the rule to start with:

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

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