bazel_daemon_status

What bazel_daemon_status does on XcodeBazelMCP

AI agents call bazel_daemon_status to retrieve information from XcodeBazelMCP without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why bazel_daemon_status is rated Low

This is a status/query tool that retrieves information about daemon state and background operations. It has no side effects, makes no modifications, and does not execute external commands or trigger operations. It fits the Read category definition: 'retrieves or queries data; no side effects (search, list, get, fetch)'. The severity is low because misuse would only return information without causing harm.

From the tool's definition The tool description explicitly states it 'Check[s] whether the per-workspace daemon is running and list[s] active background operations' — both read-only operations that query daemon state without modifying or executing anything.

The rule that runs bazel_daemon_status safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and XcodeBazelMCP, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For bazel_daemon_status, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "bazel_daemon_status": {}
  }
}

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