Get a list of available monthly game archives for a player on Chess.com
AI agents call get_player_game_archives to retrieve information from Chess Com 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 metadata about available game archives—a pure read operation that queries and returns existing data without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing anything. It has no destructive, financial, or operational side effects. The blast radius of misuse is minimal: an AI could at worst enumerate archives for a player, which is already public information on Chess.com.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_player_game_archives' and description 'Get a list of available monthly game archives for a player' indicate retrieval/query of publicly available Chess.com data with no modification or side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_player_game_archives gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Chess Com MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_player_game_archives:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_player_game_archives": {}
}
}get_player_game_archives is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get a list of available monthly game archives for a player on Chess.com. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Chess Com MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Chess Com MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_player_game_archives: 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 Chess Com MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_player_game_archives 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_player_game_archives 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_player_game_archives. 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_player_game_archives is provided by the Chess Com MCP Server MCP server (pab1it0/chess-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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