get_pa_indicator

What get_pa_indicator does on NowAIKit — ServiceNow AI Toolkit

AI agents call get_pa_indicator 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_pa_indicator is rated Low

The tool retrieves performance analytics indicator details and formulas. This is a read-only operation with no side effects, no code execution, no data modification, and no irreversible actions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal — at worst, an AI agent could enumerate or leak internal performance metrics, which is a confidentiality concern but not destructive or financially harmful.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_pa_indicator' and description state 'Get details of a specific Performance Analytics indicator including its formula' — this is a retrieval operation that queries data without modifying or deleting anything.

The rule that runs get_pa_indicator 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_pa_indicator, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "get_pa_indicator": {}
  }
}

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