Find accounts in a space - can retrieve a single account by ID or list all accounts This unified tool can either: - Get detailed information about a specific account when accountId is provided - List all accounts in a space when accountId is omitted You can optionally filter by various parameters...
AI agents call find_accounts to retrieve information from Octopus Deploy MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves account information without modifying, deleting, or executing operations. It performs standard data retrieval operations (get/list) which are characteristic of Read category tools. The low severity reflects that account discovery has limited immediate blast radius—it gathers information but does not affect deployments, resources, or system state.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it can 'retrieve a single account by ID or list all accounts' with optional filtering parameters. The verb 'find' combined with 'retrieve' and 'list' indicates read-only query operations.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access find_accounts gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Octopus Deploy MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for find_accounts:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"find_accounts": {}
}
}find_accounts is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Find accounts in a space - can retrieve a single account by ID or list all accounts This unified tool can either: - Get detailed information about a specific account when accountId is provided - List all accounts in a space when accountId is omitted You can optionally filter by various parameters like name, account type, etc. when listing. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Octopus Deploy MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Octopus Deploy MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for find_accounts: 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 Octopus Deploy MCP Server. Nothing to install.
find_accounts 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 find_accounts 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 find_accounts. 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.
find_accounts is provided by the Octopus Deploy MCP Server MCP server (octopusdeploy/mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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30 Octopus Deploy MCP Server tools catalogued and risk-classified — across an index of 42,500+ MCP servers.