AI agents call guidance_capabilities 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 is a discovery/informational tool that enumerates capabilities. It retrieves metadata about the system's features and available operations but does not itself execute actions, create, modify, or delete data. The verb 'List' and phrase 'Use this to discover' confirm read-only semantics with no side effects.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'guidance_capabilities' and description 'List all capability areas with their tools, commands, agents, and skills' indicates a read-only query operation that retrieves information about available capabilities without modifying, executing, or…
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List all capability areas with their tools, commands, agents, and skills. Use this to discover what Ruflo can do. Use when generic. 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 guidance_capabilities: 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.
guidance_capabilities 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 guidance_capabilities 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 guidance_capabilities. 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.
guidance_capabilities 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.
guidance_capabilities 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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