Get the current status of a Jules session. Acts as a dashboard to determine if Jules is busy, waiting, or failed. RETURNS: id, status, url, title, prompt, pr (if created), lastActivity, lastAgentMessage (if any), pendingPlan (if awaiting approval) STATUS (use this to decide what action to take): -
AI agents call get_session_state to retrieve information from Jules MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool purely retrieves and queries the current state of an existing Jules session without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a read-only status check similar to a dashboard view. No side effects or data mutations occur.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'get_session_state' and description states it 'Get the current status of a Jules session' and 'Acts as a dashboard' to determine session state.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get the current status of a Jules session. Acts as a dashboard to determine if Jules is busy, waiting, or failed. RETURNS: id, status, url, title, prompt, pr (if created), lastActivity, lastAgentMessage (if any), pendingPlan (if awaiting approval) STATUS (use this to decide what action to take): -. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Jules MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Jules MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_session_state: 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 Jules MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_session_state 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_session_state 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_session_state. 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_session_state is provided by the Jules MCP Server MCP server (streetquant/jules-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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