Preview recent messages in a chat session
AI agents call goclaw_session_preview to retrieve information from GoClaw MCP Server 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 historical chat session data without creating, modifying, or deleting any information. It is a read-only operation that queries existing session state. While it accesses session data that could be sensitive in some contexts, the tool itself performs no destructive or dangerous actions.
From the tool's definition Tool name and description indicate it 'Preview recent messages' - a retrieval operation with no modifications or side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access goclaw_session_preview gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and GoClaw MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for goclaw_session_preview:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"goclaw_session_preview": {}
}
} goclaw_session_preview is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Preview recent messages in a chat session. It is categorised as a Read tool in the GoClaw MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the GoClaw MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for goclaw_session_preview: 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 GoClaw MCP Server. Nothing to install.
goclaw_session_preview 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 goclaw_session_preview 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 goclaw_session_preview. 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.
goclaw_session_preview is provided by the GoClaw MCP Server MCP server (nextlevelbuilder/goclaw-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from GoClaw 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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