List Performance Analytics dashboards
AI agents call list_pa_dashboards to retrieve information from ServiceNow-MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a read-only query operation to enumerate ServiceNow Performance Analytics dashboards. It retrieves information without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. The blast radius is minimal—an AI misuse would result in information disclosure about existing dashboards, not data loss or operational impact. The 'list' verb and passive descriptor confirm this is a safe Read operation.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'list_pa_dashboards' and description 'List Performance Analytics dashboards' indicate a retrieval operation that queries dashboard metadata without modification.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List Performance Analytics dashboards. It is categorised as a Read tool in the ServiceNow-MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the ServiceNow- MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_pa_dashboards: 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 ServiceNow-MCP. Nothing to install.
list_pa_dashboards 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 list_pa_dashboards 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 list_pa_dashboards. 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.
list_pa_dashboards is provided by the ServiceNow- MCP server (tedorigawa001/servicenow-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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