Lists all active terminal sessions with their IDs, labels, and titles.
AI agents call terminal-list to retrieve information from Mcp Terminal without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool only queries and returns information about existing terminal sessions—retrieving metadata about active sessions. It has no side effects, does not execute commands, does not modify state, and does not create or delete resources. It is a straightforward read operation with minimal security risk.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'terminal-list' and description 'Lists all active terminal sessions with their IDs, labels, and titles' indicate pure data retrieval with no modification or execution capabilities.
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Lists all active terminal sessions with their IDs, labels, and titles. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Terminal MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Terminal MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for terminal-list: 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 Terminal. Nothing to install.
terminal-list 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 terminal-list 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 terminal-list. 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.
terminal-list is provided by the Mcp Terminal MCP server (unfathomable-siren38/mcp-terminal-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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