get_license_compliance
Get license compliance summary — purchased vs. installed vs. in use counts
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What get_license_compliance does on NowAIKit — ServiceNow AI Toolkit
AI agents call get_license_compliance to retrieve information from NowAIKit — ServiceNow AI Toolkit without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Why get_license_compliance is rated Low
This tool retrieves and summarizes license compliance information (counts of purchased, installed, and in-use licenses). It performs no data modification, deletion, or external execution. It is a pure read operation that presents existing system state to the user. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could access compliance data but cannot alter licenses, execute code, or create financial obligations.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_license_compliance' and description 'Get license compliance summary — purchased vs. installed vs. in use counts' indicate a retrieval operation that queries and returns compliance metrics without modifying any data.
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The rule that runs get_license_compliance safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and NowAIKit — ServiceNow AI Toolkit, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For get_license_compliance, this is the rule to start with:
get_license_compliance is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect NowAIKit — ServiceNow AI Toolkit, apply this rule, and every get_license_compliance call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about get_license_compliance
Get license compliance summary — purchased vs. installed vs. in use counts. It is categorised as a Read tool in the NowAIKit — ServiceNow AI Toolkit MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the NowAIKit — ServiceNow AI Toolkit MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_license_compliance: 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 NowAIKit — ServiceNow AI Toolkit. Nothing to install.
get_license_compliance 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_license_compliance 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_license_compliance. 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_license_compliance is provided by the NowAIKit — ServiceNow AI Toolkit MCP server (nowaikit). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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