List routes with pagination and optional airline/departure/arrival filters.
AI agents call list_routes to retrieve information from Aviationstack 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 and lists flight route information with filtering capabilities. It performs a query operation with no side effects, making it a classic Read category tool. Severity is low because querying public flight route data carries minimal risk of misuse by an AI agent, even with pagination and filtering options.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'list_routes' and description 'List routes with pagination and optional airline/departure/arrival filters' indicate a data retrieval operation with optional filtering parameters.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access list_routes gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Aviationstack MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for list_routes:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"list_routes": {}
}
}list_routes is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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List routes with pagination and optional airline/departure/arrival filters. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Aviationstack MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Aviationstack MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_routes: 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 Aviationstack MCP Server. Nothing to install.
list_routes 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 list_routes 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 list_routes. 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.
list_routes is provided by the Aviationstack MCP Server MCP server (pradumnasaraf/aviationstack-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Aviationstack MCP Server, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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