Get Work Item widgets for an epic: health status, progress, milestone, iteration, and linked items.
AI agents call get_epic_widgets to retrieve information from Mcp Gitlab 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 metadata about an epic without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a straightforward read operation with minimal blast radius if misused by an AI agent.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_epic_widgets' and description 'Get Work Item widgets for an epic' indicate a retrieval operation.
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Get Work Item widgets for an epic: health status, progress, milestone, iteration, and linked items. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Gitlab MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Gitlab MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_epic_widgets: 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 Gitlab. Nothing to install.
get_epic_widgets 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 get_epic_widgets 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 get_epic_widgets. 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.
get_epic_widgets is provided by the Mcp Gitlab MCP server (wanadev/gitlab-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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