List available workflows - multi-step task sequences for common scenarios like data validation, performance analysis, security audits, and backup procedures.
AI agents call hana_workflows to retrieve information from SAP HANA CLI without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
The tool is purely informational, listing available workflow definitions rather than executing them or modifying data. The verb 'List' indicates a read operation that retrieves metadata about workflows. No side effects or state changes are mentioned. While workflows themselves may perform various operations, this tool only enumerates them, making it a low-risk Read category.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'hana_workflows' with description stating it 'List[s] available workflows' - a query/retrieval operation with no indication of execution, modification, or deletion of data.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List available workflows - multi-step task sequences for common scenarios like data validation, performance analysis, security audits, and backup procedures. It is categorised as a Read tool in the SAP HANA CLI MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the SAP HANA CLI MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for hana_workflows: 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 SAP HANA CLI. Nothing to install.
hana_workflows 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 hana_workflows 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 hana_workflows. 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.
hana_workflows is provided by the SAP HANA CLI MCP server (hana-cli). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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