Get information about a GitHub user
AI agents call github_user_info to retrieve information from GitHub MCP Tools without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool fetches/queries user profile information from GitHub without creating, modifying, deleting data, or triggering external operations. It is a read-only retrieval operation with minimal blast radius if misused by an AI agent—the worst outcome would be gathering information about many users without authorization, which is a low-severity reconnaissance activity.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'github_user_info' and description 'Get information about a GitHub user' indicate retrieval of publicly available user profile data with no modification, deletion, or execution of code.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get information about a GitHub user. It is categorised as a Read tool in the GitHub MCP Tools MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the GitHub MCP Tools MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for github_user_info: 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 GitHub MCP Tools. Nothing to install.
github_user_info 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 github_user_info 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 github_user_info. 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.
github_user_info is provided by the GitHub MCP Tools MCP server (pranesh-2005/usingmcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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