agent_status

What agent_status does on Ruflo

AI agents call agent_status to retrieve information from Ruflo without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why agent_status is rated Low

This tool retrieves status information about subagents, which is a read-only operation with no side effects. It fits the Read category (get, fetch) as it queries the state of agents without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing operations. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could gather information about other agents but cannot cause harm through this operation alone.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'agent_status' and description 'Get subagent status' indicate a query operation that retrieves status information about agents without modifying, executing, or deleting any data.

The rule that runs agent_status safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Ruflo, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For agent_status, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "agent_status": {}
  }
}

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