Return a concise up/down status summary for all MCP servers in the config — useful as a quick sanity check before starting a development session.
AI agents call mcp_doctor_status to retrieve information from Scan Your Ai Toolkit without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This is a diagnostic read-only operation that queries the state of MCP servers and presents it to the user. No data is created, modified, deleted, or executed. The low severity reflects minimal blast radius — a misused status check cannot cause harm beyond potentially wasting time or triggering false alarms.
From the tool's definition Tool 'mcp_doctor_status' returns status information ('up/down status summary') for MCP servers in the config. The description indicates it retrieves and reports state information without modifying, executing, or deleting anything.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Return a concise up/down status summary for all MCP servers in the config — useful as a quick sanity check before starting a development session. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Scan Your Ai Toolkit MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Scan Your Ai Toolkit MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for mcp_doctor_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 Scan Your Ai Toolkit. Nothing to install.
mcp_doctor_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 mcp_doctor_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 mcp_doctor_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.
mcp_doctor_status is provided by the Scan Your Ai Toolkit MCP server (sakthivelchan89/scan_your_ai_toolkit). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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