create_attack_chain

What create_attack_chain does on Kali Security MCP

AI agents invoke create_attack_chain to trigger actions in Kali Security MCP. What it does depends on the arguments the agent supplies, and its effects often reach beyond the immediate call: builds kicked off, notifications sent, workflows started.

Why create_attack_chain is rated High

Creating an attack chain orchestrates a sequence of offensive security operations (exploitation, command injection, network penetration, etc.). On a Kali Linux penetration testing server with siblings like 'ad_full_attack' and 'adaptive_network_penetration', this tool constructs and likely triggers multi-stage attack workflows.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'create_attack_chain' on a server described as integrating 193 Kali Linux security tools for 'penetration testing' and 'vulnerability assessment through automated workflows'; sibling tools include 'ad_full_attack', 'adaptive_network_penetration',…

The rule that runs create_attack_chain safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Kali Security MCP, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For create_attack_chain, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "create_attack_chain": {
      "limits": [
        {
          "counter": "create_attack_chain_rate",
          "window": "minute",
          "max": 10,
          "scope": "grant"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Questions about create_attack_chain