tools_gowitness

What tools_gowitness does on Zebbern Kali MCP

AI agents invoke tools_gowitness to trigger actions in Zebbern Kali MCP. What it does depends on the arguments the agent supplies, and its effects often reach beyond the immediate call: builds kicked off, notifications sent, workflows started.

Why tools_gowitness is rated High

Gowitness is a penetration testing reconnaissance tool that launches a headless browser to screenshot web services. It executes external operations against potentially arbitrary targets. On a Kali-based server with sibling tools like secretsdump, bloodhound, and kerberoast, this fits an active recon/Execute pattern. Empty description reduces confidence but the tool name is strongly indicative.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'tools_gowitness' on a Kali Linux penetration testing MCP server; gowitness is a well-known web screenshot/reconnaissance tool that executes browser-based captures against target URLs. Description is empty, lowering confidence.

The rule that runs tools_gowitness safely

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

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "tools_gowitness": {
      "limits": [
        {
          "counter": "tools_gowitness_rate",
          "window": "minute",
          "max": 10,
          "scope": "grant"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Questions about tools_gowitness