Show your current AIP identity — DID, platform, and public key.
AI agents call aip_whoami to retrieve information from Aip Identity 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 information about the caller's current identity without side effects. It is a read-only operation similar to 'get' or 'fetch' operations. The low severity reflects minimal blast radius — exposing one's own identity information poses no destructive or financial risk, and the information returned is intended to be public as part of identity verification systems.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Show your current AIP identity' — a retrieval operation that returns identity information (DID, platform, public key) without modifying or executing any operations.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Show your current AIP identity — DID, platform, and public key. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Aip Identity MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Aip Identity MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for aip_whoami: 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 Aip Identity. Nothing to install.
aip_whoami 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 aip_whoami 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 aip_whoami. 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.
aip_whoami is provided by the Aip Identity MCP server (the-nexus-guard/aip-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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Type a name, get the same breakdown: verified identity, auth posture, risk grade, capabilities, recommended policy.
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