Get list of officers for a specific company
AI agents call get_officers to retrieve information from Companies House 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 officer information from the Companies House database. It performs a read-only lookup operation that returns data without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any changes. The blast radius is minimal as it only exposes publicly available company officer records that are already part of the public Companies House register.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_officers' and description 'Get list of officers for a specific company' indicate a retrieval operation with no modification or side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_officers gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Companies House MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_officers:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_officers": {}
}
}get_officers is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get list of officers for a specific company. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Companies House MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Companies House MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_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 Companies House MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_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_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_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_officers is provided by the Companies House MCP Server MCP server (stefanoamorelli/companies-house-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Companies House MCP Server, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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