AI agents call list_authorization_groups to retrieve information from Smokeball without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a read-only operation to enumerate authorization groups. It retrieves information about firm authorization groups but does not create, modify, delete, or execute any actions. The low severity reflects minimal blast radius—unauthorized access to authorization group listings presents information disclosure risk but cannot directly cause financial loss, data destruction, or execute operations.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'list_authorization_groups' and description 'List all authorization groups for this firm' indicate a query operation that retrieves data without modification or side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List all authorization groups for this firm. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Smokeball MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Smokeball MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_authorization_groups: 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 Smokeball. Nothing to install.
list_authorization_groups 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_authorization_groups 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_authorization_groups. 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_authorization_groups is provided by the Smokeball MCP server (rosenadvertising/smokeball-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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