List all currently loaded documents.
AI agents call list_documents to retrieve information from DocNav-MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Listing documents is a read-only operation with no side effects. It retrieves information about the current state of the system but does not create, modify, delete, or execute anything. The blast radius if misused by an AI agent is minimal — it can only reveal which documents are loaded, posing a low informational risk at most.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'list_documents' and description states 'List all currently loaded documents' — this is a query operation that retrieves metadata about loaded documents without modification, deletion, or execution.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List all currently loaded documents. It is categorised as a Read tool in the DocNav-MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the DocNav- MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_documents: 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 DocNav-MCP. Nothing to install.
list_documents 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 list_documents 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 list_documents. 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.
list_documents is provided by the DocNav- MCP server (shenyimings/docnav-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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