List monitoring alarms.
AI agents call list_alarms to retrieve information from OCI 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 returns existing alarm data from OCI monitoring without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It has no side effects and poses minimal risk even if misused by an agent, as it only reveals monitoring information already accessible to the authenticated user. Low severity reflects the informational nature of the operation.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'list_alarms' and description 'List monitoring alarms' indicate a retrieval operation with no state modification. The verb 'list' is explicitly a read-only query operation.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List monitoring alarms. It is categorised as a Read tool in the OCI MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the OCI MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_alarms: 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 OCI MCP Server. Nothing to install.
list_alarms 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_alarms 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_alarms. 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_alarms is provided by the OCI MCP Server MCP server (sarthak-pansare/oci-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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