validate_footnotes

What validate_footnotes does on Docx

AI agents call validate_footnotes to retrieve information from Docx without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why validate_footnotes is rated Low

The tool performs structural auditing and validation by checking consistency between XML components. It retrieves and examines data to verify footnote integrity but does not create, modify, delete, or execute external operations. This is a classic Read operation with minimal blast radius—misuse would only expose document structure information or report validation results.

From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Cross-reference footnote IDs between document.xml and footnotes.xml' — a validation/verification operation that queries and compares existing data without modifying it.

The rule that runs validate_footnotes safely

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

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "validate_footnotes": {}
  }
}

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