Get list of company officers (directors, secretaries) by company number.
AI agents call get_company_officers to retrieve information from GovUK MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and retrieves information about company officers (directors, secretaries) from UK government records. It is a read-only operation that returns data without side effects. The information retrieved is public company registration data. While this data could be sensitive in some contexts, the tool itself performs no destructive, financial, or executable actions.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_company_officers' and description 'Get list of company officers' indicate retrieval of publicly available company registration data. No modification, deletion, execution, or financial operation is performed.
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Get list of company officers (directors, secretaries) by company number. It is categorised as a Read tool in the GovUK MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the GovUK MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_company_officers: 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 GovUK MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_company_officers 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_company_officers 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_company_officers. 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_company_officers is provided by the GovUK MCP Server MCP server (stealth-labs-ltd/govuk-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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