list_products

What list_products does on PayPal

AI agents call list_products to retrieve information from PayPal without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why list_products is rated Low

This tool retrieves and queries product data without side effects. It performs listing/querying operations typical of Read category tools. The presence of financial tools on the same server (create_refund, create_order, etc.) does not change the nature of this specific tool, which is purely informational. Severity is low because misuse would only expose product information, not cause financial harm or data loss.

From the tool's definition Tool name is 'list_products' and description states 'List products with optional pagination and filtering' — a clear data retrieval operation with no modification, deletion, or financial transaction.

The rule that runs list_products safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and PayPal, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For list_products, this is the rule to start with:

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

Questions about list_products