Show full hierarchy tree of windows, workspaces, panes, surfaces, and panels.
AI agents call cmux_tree to retrieve information from Cmux Agent without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and displays structural information about the terminal control plane's organizational hierarchy. It has no side effects, does not execute commands, create, modify, or delete data, and poses minimal risk if queried by an AI agent. The operation is purely informational.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'cmux_tree' and description 'Show full hierarchy tree of windows, workspaces, panes, surfaces, and panels' indicate a query/display operation with no modification or execution capability.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access cmux_tree gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Cmux Agent, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for cmux_tree:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"cmux_tree": {}
}
}cmux_tree is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Show full hierarchy tree of windows, workspaces, panes, surfaces, and panels. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Cmux Agent MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Cmux Agent MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for cmux_tree: 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 Cmux Agent. Nothing to install.
cmux_tree 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 cmux_tree 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 cmux_tree. 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.
cmux_tree is provided by the Cmux Agent MCP server (multiagentcognition/cmux-agent-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Cmux Agent, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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