AI agents call steer_status to retrieve information from Git Steer without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs status checks and displays information about the git-steer system's current operational state, rate limits, and health metrics. It retrieves data without creating, modifying, executing, or deleting anything. It is purely informational, making it a Read category tool with low severity risk.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'steer_status' and description 'Show git-steer status, rate limits, and health' indicate retrieval and display of monitoring/diagnostic information with no modification or execution of operations.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Show git-steer status, rate limits, and health. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Git Steer MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Git Steer MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for steer_status: 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 Git Steer. Nothing to install.
steer_status 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 steer_status 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 steer_status. 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.
steer_status is provided by the Git Steer MCP server (ry-ops/git-steer). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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