List all documentation categories with document counts and descriptions. Useful for understanding what documentation is available.
AI agents call list_doc_categories to retrieve information from Salesforce Documentation MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a retrieval operation that queries and returns information about available documentation categories without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It has no capacity to alter state or trigger external actions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an AI agent cannot cause harm beyond retrieving metadata about documentation structure.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'list_doc_categories' and description state it 'List[s] all documentation categories' and is 'Useful for understanding what documentation is available.' This is a pure read operation that retrieves and enumerates existing documentation metadata with…
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access list_doc_categories gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Salesforce Documentation MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for list_doc_categories:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"list_doc_categories": {}
}
}list_doc_categories is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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List all documentation categories with document counts and descriptions. Useful for understanding what documentation is available. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Salesforce Documentation MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Salesforce Documentation MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_doc_categories: 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 Salesforce Documentation MCP Server. Nothing to install.
list_doc_categories 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_doc_categories 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_doc_categories. 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_doc_categories is provided by the Salesforce Documentation MCP Server MCP server (salesforcediariesbysanket/salesforce-docs-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Salesforce Documentation MCP Server, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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