Get top teams for the current year by country (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, lowercase).
AI agents call ctftime_top_by_country 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 and returns ranking/competition data without any side effects. It is a read-only retrieval operation that accesses publicly available CTFtime competition information. The minimal risk profile is consistent with other listed tools on the server (ctftime_events, ctftime_results, ctftime_votes) which are all informational queries. No destructive, write, execute, or financial operations are possible.
From the tool's definition The tool retrieves top teams data by country from CTFtime.org public API; described as a 'Get' operation with no mention of modification, deletion, or execution capabilities.
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Get top teams for the current year by country (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, lowercase). 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_top_by_country: 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_top_by_country 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_top_by_country 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_top_by_country. 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_top_by_country 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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