AI agents call text_statistics to retrieve information from Awesome-MCP-Scaffold without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and computes statistics about text content without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing external operations. It has no side effects on data or systems. The blast radius of misuse is minimal - an AI agent could only generate verbose or computationally expensive statistics requests, not cause harm.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'text_statistics' and description states 'Get detailed text statistics' - the verb 'get' and 'statistics' indicate data retrieval without modification.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access text_statistics gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Awesome-MCP-Scaffold, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for text_statistics:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"text_statistics": {}
}
}text_statistics is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get detailed text statistics. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Awesome-MCP-Scaffold MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Awesome-MCP-Scaffold MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for text_statistics: 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 Awesome-MCP-Scaffold. Nothing to install.
text_statistics 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 text_statistics 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 text_statistics. 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.
text_statistics is provided by the Awesome-MCP-Scaffold MCP server (ww-ai-lab/awesome-mcp-scaffold). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Awesome-MCP-Scaffold, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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