AI agents call odoo_version to retrieve information from MCP-Odoo without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a read-only query to retrieve version information from the Odoo server. It has no capability to modify, execute, delete, or affect any data or operations. The blast radius is minimal as version information is typically non-sensitive system metadata. Even in the context of a financial ERP system, version retrieval is a benign reconnaissance operation.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'odoo_version' and description 'Get the Odoo server version' indicate a simple retrieval operation that queries system metadata without any modifications, side effects, or access to sensitive business data.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access odoo_version gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and MCP-Odoo, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for odoo_version:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"odoo_version": {}
}
}odoo_version is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get the Odoo server version. It is categorised as a Read tool in the MCP-Odoo MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the MCP-Odoo MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for odoo_version: 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-Odoo. Nothing to install.
odoo_version 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 odoo_version 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 odoo_version. 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.
odoo_version is provided by the MCP-Odoo MCP server (yourtechtribe/mcp-odoo-for-finance). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from MCP-Odoo, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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