Full system status
AI agents call coordinator_status to retrieve information from Mcp Coordinator without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and returns the current state of the coordination system. Retrieving status information is a read-only operation with no side effects. The lack of parameters for execution, deletion, or financial operations, combined with the passive informational nature of 'status', clearly places it in the Read category.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Full system status', which retrieves system information without modifying, deleting, or executing operations. No action verbs indicating mutation, execution, or destruction are present.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Full system status. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Coordinator MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Coordinator MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for coordinator_status: 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 Mcp Coordinator. Nothing to install.
coordinator_status 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 coordinator_status 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 coordinator_status. 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.
coordinator_status is provided by the Mcp Coordinator MCP server (swoofer/mcp-coordinator). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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