List skills grouped by category; each skill links to backing evidence ids.
AI agents call list_skills to retrieve information from Nima Career without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and presents skill information organized by category, with references to supporting evidence. It performs no write, delete, execute, or financial operations. The action is purely informational retrieval from a curated, public-safe career history, making it a straightforward Read operation with minimal risk.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'list_skills' and description 'List skills grouped by category' indicate a query/retrieval operation with no modification or side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List skills grouped by category; each skill links to backing evidence ids. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Nima Career MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Nima Career MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_skills: 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 Nima Career. Nothing to install.
list_skills 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 list_skills 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 list_skills. 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.
list_skills is provided by the Nima Career MCP server (nima-karami/nima-career-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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