List all exported symbols in the repository. Helps AI understand the public API surface of the codebase.
AI agents call list_exports 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.
This tool queries and returns information about the codebase's public API surface. It performs read-only analysis without modifying, executing, or deleting anything. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an AI agent cannot cause harm by listing exports. Severity is low because the information returned is already public API metadata that developers would normally access through code inspection tools.
From the tool's definition Tool is named 'list_exports' and described as listing exported symbols to help understand 'the public API surface of the codebase.' This is a retrieval operation with no side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List all exported symbols in the repository. Helps AI understand the public API surface of the codebase. 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 list_exports: 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.
list_exports 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 list_exports 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 list_exports. 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.
list_exports 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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