List all boot environments. Shows name, active status, creation date, size, and keep flag.
AI agents call bootenv_list to retrieve information from Truenas without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and displays information about boot environments without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a pure read operation with minimal security risk even if misused by an AI agent, as it only retrieves system state information.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'bootenv_list' and description 'List all boot environments. Shows name, active status, creation date, size, and keep flag' indicate a retrieval operation with no side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access bootenv_list gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Truenas, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for bootenv_list:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"bootenv_list": {}
}
}bootenv_list is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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List all boot environments. Shows name, active status, creation date, size, and keep flag. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Truenas MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Truenas MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for bootenv_list: 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 Truenas. Nothing to install.
bootenv_list 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 bootenv_list 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 bootenv_list. 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.
bootenv_list is provided by the Truenas MCP server (spranab/truenas-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Truenas, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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