Retrieves team conventions, architectural decisions, and known gotchas.\n
AI agents call get_memory to retrieve information from Codebase Context without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a retrieval/query operation on stored team metadata and documentation. The verb 'Retrieves' and the nature of the data (conventions, decisions, gotchas) confirm read-only semantics with no side effects. The blast radius is minimal—misuse would only expose internal knowledge, not cause operational harm or irreversible changes.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_memory' and description 'Retrieves team conventions, architectural decisions, and known gotchas' indicate a read-only operation that queries stored information without modifying, executing, or deleting data.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_memory gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Codebase Context, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_memory:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_memory": {}
}
}get_memory is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Retrieves team conventions, architectural decisions, and known gotchas.\n. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Codebase Context MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Codebase Context MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_memory: 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 Codebase Context. Nothing to install.
get_memory 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_memory 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_memory. 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_memory is provided by the Codebase Context MCP server (patricksys/codebase-context). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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11 Codebase Context tools catalogued and risk-classified — across an index of 42,500+ MCP servers.