Get teams (user groups)
AI agents call get-team-groups to retrieve information from ClickUp Operator without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves or queries team/group information from ClickUp without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a straightforward data retrieval operation with no adverse effects if called by an AI agent, making it a Read category tool with low severity.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get-team-groups' and description 'Get teams (user groups)' indicate retrieval of existing data with no modification or side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get teams (user groups). It is categorised as a Read tool in the ClickUp Operator MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the ClickUp Operator MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get-team-groups: 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 ClickUp Operator. Nothing to install.
get-team-groups 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-team-groups 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-team-groups. 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-team-groups is provided by the ClickUp Operator MCP server (noah-vh/mcp-server-clickup). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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