📊 Get template provenance: source, author, success rate, usage stats, trust score. Shows template reliability.
AI agents call get_template_provenance to retrieve information from n8n Workflow Builder without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This is a pure data retrieval operation that queries template provenance information. It returns informational attributes (author, statistics, trust metrics) without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any workflows or code. The tool has no side effects and poses minimal risk—a misused invocation would only return irrelevant or unnecessary template metadata to the user.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves metadata about templates: 'source, author, success rate, usage stats, trust score'. The verb 'Get' and the stated purpose of 'Shows template reliability' indicate read-only querying of template information with no modification or execution.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
📊 Get template provenance: source, author, success rate, usage stats, trust score. Shows template reliability. It is categorised as a Read tool in the n8n Workflow Builder MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the n8n Workflow Builder MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_template_provenance: 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 n8n Workflow Builder. Nothing to install.
get_template_provenance 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_template_provenance 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_template_provenance. 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_template_provenance is provided by the n8n Workflow Builder MCP server (schimmilab/n8n-workflow-builder). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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