Retrieves a list of business units in the Dataverse environment with filtering and sorting options. Use this to discover available business units, understand organizational hierarchy, and find specific business units by criteria.
AI agents call list_dataverse_businessunits to retrieve information from Dataverse MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a query operation that discovers and retrieves existing business unit data from Dataverse. The description explicitly uses 'Retrieves' and references discovery and finding activities, which are characteristic of Read operations. There are no side effects, no data modification, no deletion, no execution of arbitrary code, and no financial impact.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'list_dataverse_businessunits' and description 'Retrieves a list of business units' with 'filtering and sorting options' indicate read-only data retrieval with no modification capabilities.
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Retrieves a list of business units in the Dataverse environment with filtering and sorting options. Use this to discover available business units, understand organizational hierarchy, and find specific business units by criteria. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Dataverse MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Dataverse MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_dataverse_businessunits: 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 Dataverse MCP Server. Nothing to install.
list_dataverse_businessunits 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_dataverse_businessunits 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_dataverse_businessunits. 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_dataverse_businessunits is provided by the Dataverse MCP Server MCP server (wizspdemo/dataverse-mcp3). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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