Create a new essential database inside the specified subscription ID. Returns a TASK ID that can be used to track the status of the database creation.
AI agents use create-essential-database to create or update resources in Redis Cloud API MCP Server — usually the action step of a workflow, after the agent has gathered context. Every call changes real data in your Redis Cloud API MCP Server environment.
This tool creates a new database resource within a Redis Cloud subscription. While creation is reversible (databases can be deleted), this action has significant side effects: it allocates cloud resources, incurs potential costs, and modifies the subscription state. It does not execute arbitrary code or delete data, so Execute and Destructive are not applicable.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'create-essential-database' and description states 'Create a new essential database inside the specified subscription ID.' The verb 'create' and explicit statement of database creation indicates data modification.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access create-essential-database gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Redis Cloud API MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for create-essential-database:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"create-essential-database": {
"limits": [
{
"counter": "create-essential-database_rate",
"window": "minute",
"max": 30,
"scope": "grant"
}
]
}
}
}create-essential-database stays usable, but capped — an agent stuck in a loop can't make hundreds of changes a minute. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Create a new essential database inside the specified subscription ID. Returns a TASK ID that can be used to track the status of the database creation. It is categorised as a Write tool in the Redis Cloud API MCP Server MCP Server, which means it can create or modify data. Consider rate limits to prevent runaway writes.
Register the Redis Cloud API MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for create-essential-database: 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 Redis Cloud API MCP Server. Nothing to install.
create-essential-database is a Write tool with medium risk. Write tools should be rate-limited to prevent accidental bulk modifications.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the create-essential-database 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 create-essential-database. 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.
create-essential-database is provided by the Redis Cloud API MCP Server MCP server (redis/mcp-redis-cloud). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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