360° view of a symbol: definition location, callers, callees, heritage (extends/implements), members, cluster, and source preview (first 500 chars)
AI agents call inspect to retrieve information from code-intel MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
The inspect tool is purely informational, analyzing and presenting code structure, relationships, and metadata. It has no side effects, cannot execute code, modify data, delete anything, or trigger external operations. The scope is limited to querying and displaying information about symbols in a codebase, making it a straightforward Read category tool with low severity risk.
From the tool's definition Tool provides a "360° view of a symbol" including "definition location, callers, callees, heritage, members, cluster, and source preview" - all read-only operations that retrieve and display code metadata and structure without modifying, executing, or…
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360° view of a symbol: definition location, callers, callees, heritage (extends/implements), members, cluster, and source preview (first 500 chars). It is categorised as a Read tool in the code-intel MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the code-intel MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for inspect: 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 code-intel MCP Server. Nothing to install.
inspect 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 inspect 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 inspect. 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.
inspect is provided by the code-intel MCP Server MCP server (vohongtho/code-intel-platform). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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