AI agents call federation_trust to retrieve information from Ruflo without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and displays existing trust metadata about federated nodes without creating, modifying, executing, or destroying data. It is a passive inspection mechanism typical of monitoring and diagnostics in distributed systems. The low severity reflects minimal blast radius if misused by an agent—reading trust scores poses no operational risk compared to spawning agents or terminating them.
From the tool's definition Tool performs 'view or review' operations on 'trust score details' for a node—purely informational retrieval with no side effects, modification, execution, or deletion capabilities.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
View or review trust score details for a specific node. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Ruflo MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Ruflo MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for federation_trust: 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 Ruflo. Nothing to install.
federation_trust 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 federation_trust 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 federation_trust. 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.
federation_trust is provided by the Ruflo MCP server (ruvnet/ruflo). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
federation_trust is one line of Ruflo's registry record.
The record carries the whole server: verified identity, auth posture, risk grade, every tool classified, recommended policy — re-checked continuously.
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