List available templates. By default returns only the user\
AI agents call list-templates to retrieve information from RunPod MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and displays template data without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a straightforward read operation that returns information to the user. The severity is low because listing templates poses minimal risk—there is no data modification, execution, financial impact, or destructive action.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'list-templates' and description 'List available templates' indicate a query/retrieval operation with no side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access list-templates gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and RunPod MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for list-templates:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"list-templates": {}
}
}list-templates is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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List available templates. By default returns only the user\. It is categorised as a Read tool in the RunPod MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the RunPod MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list-templates: 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 RunPod MCP Server. Nothing to install.
list-templates 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-templates 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-templates. 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-templates is provided by the RunPod MCP Server MCP server (runpod/runpod-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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