Check the status of a backfill job — progress, events processed, errors.
AI agents call conduit_backfill_status to retrieve information from Conduit MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves information about an existing backfill job's state without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is purely informational and has no blast radius if misused by an agent—the worst outcome would be information disclosure about job progress.
From the tool's definition Tool name and description indicate a status-checking operation: 'Check the status of a backfill job — progress, events processed, errors.' The verb 'Check' and the parameters (progress, events processed, errors) are all read-only queries with no modification…
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Check the status of a backfill job — progress, events processed, errors. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Conduit MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Conduit MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for conduit_backfill_status: 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 Conduit MCP. Nothing to install.
conduit_backfill_status 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 conduit_backfill_status 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 conduit_backfill_status. 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.
conduit_backfill_status is provided by the Conduit MCP server (useconduit/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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