Get the username of a WordPress author by their ID
AI agents call get-author-username to retrieve information from AutoWP MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a simple lookup operation to retrieve publicly-available author metadata (username) based on an ID parameter. It does not create, modify, delete, or execute any operations. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an adversary could enumerate author usernames, which are typically public information on WordPress sites. This is a straightforward Read operation.
From the tool's definition The tool name 'get-author-username' and description 'Get the username of a WordPress author by their ID' indicate a query operation that retrieves author information without modification or side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get-author-username gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and AutoWP MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get-author-username:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get-author-username": {}
}
}get-author-username is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get the username of a WordPress author by their ID. It is categorised as a Read tool in the AutoWP MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the AutoWP MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get-author-username: 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 AutoWP MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get-author-username 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 get-author-username 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 get-author-username. 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.
get-author-username is provided by the AutoWP MCP Server MCP server (njengah/autowpmcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from AutoWP 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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