Get all defined styles with ID, name, type, and base style.
AI agents call get_styles to retrieve information from Docx without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a straightforward read operation that queries document metadata (styles) without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It has minimal security impact; the information retrieved is structural metadata typically visible to any user with document access.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves and lists defined styles (ID, name, type, base style) with no modification or deletion capability. The verb 'Get' and the retrieval-only description indicate pure data query with no side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_styles gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Docx, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_styles:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_styles": {}
}
}get_styles is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get all defined styles with ID, name, type, and base style. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Docx MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Docx MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_styles: 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 Docx. Nothing to install.
get_styles 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_styles 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_styles. 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_styles is provided by the Docx MCP server (securityronin/docx-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Docx, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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