AI agents call get_available_templates to retrieve information from Slidespeak without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and returns a list of available templates. It performs no creation, modification, deletion, code execution, or financial operations. The operation is read-only with no blast radius if misused by an AI agent, as it only exposes existing template metadata.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_available_templates' and description 'Get all available presentation templates' indicate a retrieval operation with no side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_available_templates gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Slidespeak, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_available_templates:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_available_templates": {}
}
}get_available_templates 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 available presentation templates. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Slidespeak MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Slidespeak MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_available_templates: 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 Slidespeak. Nothing to install.
get_available_templates 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_available_templates 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_available_templates. 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_available_templates is provided by the Slidespeak MCP server (slidespeak/slidespeak-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Slidespeak, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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