Get your submitted proposals with status and client response.
AI agents call get_proposals to retrieve information from Upwork without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves historical data about proposals already submitted by the user. It queries existing records (proposals, their statuses, and client responses) without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any actions.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'get_proposals' and description states 'Get your submitted proposals with status and client response' — purely a retrieval operation with no modification or side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_proposals gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Upwork, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_proposals:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_proposals": {}
}
}get_proposals is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get your submitted proposals with status and client response. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Upwork MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Upwork MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_proposals: 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 Upwork. Nothing to install.
get_proposals 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_proposals 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_proposals. 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_proposals is provided by the Upwork MCP server (zcrossoverz/upwork-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Upwork, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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