List every FRC team that competed in a given season year, paginated in groups of 500. Returns full team profiles. Use to scope team enumeration to a single competition season. Lighter variants: get_teams_by_year_simple, get_teams_by_year_keys.
AI agents call get_teams_by_year to retrieve information from Tba without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and queries historical team data from The Blue Alliance (FRC competition database). It has no side effects—it does not create, modify, delete, or execute operations. The pagination and filtering by year are standard read-operation features. The availability of lighter variants (get_teams_by_year_simple, get_teams_by_year_keys) further confirms this is a read-only enumeration tool.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'List every FRC team that competed in a given season year' and 'Returns full team profiles.' The verb 'List' combined with 'Returns' indicates data retrieval with no modification capabilities.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List every FRC team that competed in a given season year, paginated in groups of 500. Returns full team profiles. Use to scope team enumeration to a single competition season. Lighter variants: get_teams_by_year_simple, get_teams_by_year_keys. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Tba MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Tba MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_teams_by_year: 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 Tba. Nothing to install.
get_teams_by_year 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_teams_by_year 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_teams_by_year. 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_teams_by_year is provided by the Tba MCP server (@withinfocus/tba-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
get_teams_by_year is one line of Tba's registry record.
The record carries the whole server: verified identity, auth posture, risk grade, every tool classified, recommended policy — re-checked continuously.
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