Return the most-clicked targets, highest first.
AI agents call top_targets to retrieve information from Mdb Mcp Gateway without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and returns analytics or usage data (click counts) in sorted order. It performs a read-only query with no capability to modify data, execute commands, delete records, or trigger external operations. The highest severity risk would be unauthorized exposure of aggregated metrics, but the tool itself is a simple ranked retrieval.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'top_targets' and description 'Return the most-clicked targets, highest first' indicates a retrieval/query operation that sorts and returns existing data without modification, creation, deletion, or external side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Return the most-clicked targets, highest first. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mdb Mcp Gateway MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mdb Mcp Gateway MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for top_targets: 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 Mdb Mcp Gateway. Nothing to install.
top_targets 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 top_targets 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 top_targets. 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.
top_targets is provided by the Mdb Mcp Gateway MCP server (ranfysvalle02/m-gate). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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