Get information about a specific team by team_id.
AI agents call ctftime_team to retrieve information from Mcp Ctftime without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries publicly available CTF competition data from CTFtime.org and returns information about a specific team. It has no side effects—it performs a simple data retrieval operation with no write, destructive, execute, or financial impact. The use of a team identifier to fetch information is characteristic of a read-only query operation.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves team information by team_id from the public CTFtime API. The description indicates a read operation that retrieves existing data without modification.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get information about a specific team by team_id. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Ctftime MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Ctftime MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for ctftime_team: 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 Mcp Ctftime. Nothing to install.
ctftime_team 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 ctftime_team 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 ctftime_team. 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.
ctftime_team is provided by the Mcp Ctftime MCP server (tomek7667/mcp-ctftime). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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