Show current agent status: identity, connected peers, states, and network info. Quick overview of everything — use this to orient yourself.
AI agents call agent_status to retrieve information from Networkselfmd without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and displays information about the agent's current operational state (identity, peers, network topology) without creating, modifying, deleting, executing code, or making financial transactions. It is a read-only informational query tool with minimal blast radius if misused by an AI agent.
From the tool's definition Tool description explicitly states it 'shows' current agent status and provides 'overview' of identity, connected peers, states, and network info. The verb 'show' and 'overview' indicate query/retrieval of existing state with no modifications or side effects.
Risk signalsBulk/mass operation — affects multiple targets
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Show current agent status: identity, connected peers, states, and network info. Quick overview of everything — use this to orient yourself. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Networkselfmd MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Networkselfmd MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for agent_status: 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 Networkselfmd. Nothing to install.
agent_status 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 agent_status 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 agent_status. 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.
agent_status is provided by the Networkselfmd MCP server (selfmd/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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