Get roster for a specific team.
AI agents call get_team_roster to retrieve information from NHL MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and retrieves roster information for a team. It is a read-only operation that returns existing data without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any actions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could only retrieve public sports data that is already freely available. This is a standard Read category tool with low severity.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_team_roster' and description 'Get roster for a specific team' indicate a retrieval operation with no side effects. The NHL MCP Server description confirms it 'provides access to live NHL data' including team information.
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Get roster for a specific team. It is categorised as a Read tool in the NHL MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the NHL MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_team_roster: 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 NHL MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_team_roster 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 get_team_roster 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 get_team_roster. 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.
get_team_roster is provided by the NHL MCP Server MCP server (sanchorelaxo/mcp-server-sandbox). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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