List Performance Analytics data collection jobs and their schedules
AI agents call list_pa_jobs 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 retrieves and queries information about Performance Analytics jobs and their schedules without creating, modifying, or deleting any data. It has no side effects and falls clearly into the Read category. The severity is low as querying job metadata poses minimal security risk to the ServiceNow instance.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'list_pa_jobs' and description 'List Performance Analytics data collection jobs and their schedules' indicate retrieval of metadata about existing jobs with no modification or deletion capability.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List Performance Analytics data collection jobs and their schedules. 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_jobs: 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_jobs 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_jobs 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_jobs. 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_jobs 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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