Returns an object indicating the template content for each card of the specified model.
AI agents call modelTemplates to retrieve information from Anki without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves existing template information from an Anki model without modifying, creating, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a pure read operation querying model structure metadata.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'Returns an object indicating the template content for each card of the specified model.' The verb 'Returns' and the read-only nature of retrieving template content indicates no data modification or side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access modelTemplates gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Anki, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for modelTemplates:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"modelTemplates": {}
}
}modelTemplates is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Returns an object indicating the template content for each card of the specified model. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Anki MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Anki MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for modelTemplates: 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 Anki. Nothing to install.
modelTemplates 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 modelTemplates 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 modelTemplates. 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.
modelTemplates is provided by the Anki MCP server (ujisati/anki-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Anki, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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