Analyze security scan output and suggest hardening steps to improve infrastructure security.
AI agents call suggest_security_hardening to retrieve information from Terraform Best Practices without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs analysis and generates suggestions based on input data (security scan output). It retrieves information and produces advisory output without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing changes to infrastructure. The core action is reading and analyzing, making it a Read category tool with low severity—misuse would only produce incorrect recommendations, not infrastructure changes.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'suggest_security_hardening' and description 'Analyze security scan output and suggest hardening steps' indicate the tool reads/analyzes existing scan data and provides recommendations.
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Analyze security scan output and suggest hardening steps to improve infrastructure security. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Terraform Best Practices MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Terraform Best Practices MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for suggest_security_hardening: 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 Terraform Best Practices. Nothing to install.
suggest_security_hardening 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 suggest_security_hardening 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 suggest_security_hardening. 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.
suggest_security_hardening is provided by the Terraform Best Practices MCP server (@downatthebottomofthemolehole/terraform-best-practices-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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