AI agents call cortex_list_organizations to retrieve information from Cortex without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and queries organizational data without side effects. While it requires a superadmin API key (indicating elevated privileges and potential access to sensitive data), the action itself is a read-only list operation. Severity is low because retrieval of organization metadata, though potentially sensitive, does not directly enable harmful actions compared to write, execute, or destructive operations.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'cortex_list_organizations' and description 'List all organizations' indicate a data retrieval operation. No creation, modification, deletion, or external execution is mentioned.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List all organizations (requires superadmin API key via CORTEX_SUPERADMIN_KEY). It is categorised as a Read tool in the Cortex MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Cortex MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for cortex_list_organizations: 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 Cortex. Nothing to install.
cortex_list_organizations 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 cortex_list_organizations 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 cortex_list_organizations. 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.
cortex_list_organizations is provided by the Cortex MCP server (solomonneas/cortex-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
cortex_list_organizations is one line of Cortex's registry record.
The record carries the whole server: verified identity, auth posture, risk grade, every tool classified, recommended policy — re-checked continuously.
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