Open receivable/payable item counts and draft invoice backlog
AI agents call accounting_health_summary to retrieve information from Odoo MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs data retrieval and aggregation of accounting metrics (receivable/payable counts, draft invoice backlogs). It has no described side effects, does not modify data, execute commands, or perform financial transactions—it only reads and summarizes existing financial data. The low severity reflects that misuse would expose or report financial information but not change balances or commit obligations.
From the tool's definition 'Open receivable/payable item counts and draft invoice backlog' - the tool retrieves and summarizes accounting data without modifying, deleting, or executing operations. It returns counts and status summaries, which are read-only queries.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Open receivable/payable item counts and draft invoice backlog. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Odoo MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Odoo MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for accounting_health_summary: 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 Odoo MCP Server. Nothing to install.
accounting_health_summary 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 accounting_health_summary 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 accounting_health_summary. 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.
accounting_health_summary is provided by the Odoo MCP Server MCP server (pypi:odoo-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.