AI agents call issues to retrieve information from Codescan without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and retrieves issue data from a Codescan project without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It has no side effects and poses minimal risk as it only exposes information already available in the system. Severity is low because misuse would only result in unauthorized information disclosure, not loss or modification of data.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves issues for a Codescan project. The description uses 'Get' which indicates data retrieval. The server description also mentions 'querying issues with advanced filtering', further confirming this is a read-only operation that returns data without…
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get issues for a Codescan project. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Codescan MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Codescan MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for issues: 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 Codescan. Nothing to install.
issues 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 issues 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 issues. 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.
issues is provided by the Codescan MCP server (presh-ar/codescan-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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